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Jeroen Van Der Stock

Night Horse

Doc. expérimental | hdv | couleur et n&b | 18:35 | Belgique, Japon | 2019

A horse in different shapes, obscurity, digital artefacts and an electroacoustic soundscape are the main travelers on an abstract journey through the night. --A short film entirely based on footage from unsecured live surveillance cameras-- Synopsis: A cave with an animal trapped inside? An eyeball vaguely reflecting a horse asleep? A peephole into the black night? A dark side of the globe? With the exception of a few cars passing, some sleepy village is lacking traces of human activity. In the dimly lit interiors of a house no movements are to be detected. A few trucks hit a road that eventually leads to a hallucinogenic crossroad and a stable with a psychedelic horse. The horse is restless and behaves oddly. Under sea level a couple of predator sharks are slowly exploring the waters. The nearby beach remains empty. Some insects do appear, but they can’t stop the night from turning into something more obscure and less comprehensible. The eyeball shelters a horse in many shapes. The dark side of the globe approaches. The peephole sucks itself deeper into the night.

Jeroen Van der Stock (°1979) is a Belgian-born filmmaker who earned his Masters in Audiovisual Arts from the Luca School of Arts in Brussels. In his work he often explores ideas around rejection, dysfunctionality and abandonment. Van der Stock his video works have been screened at film festivals including Rotterdam, Oberhausen, CPH:DOX, Jeonju and RIDM. His short film ?Night Horse? won the Grand Prize at the Image Forum Festival and was nominated for the Found Footage Award at IFFR 2019. Van der Stock is currently living and working in Kanagawa, Japan.