The Horse

The Horse (1973)

In this haunting coming-of-age tale that its director Charles Burnett has described as a “kind of allegory of the South,” an African American boy gently tends to a horse that is to be shot as a group of white men passively look on.  Burnett artfully employs a sparse lyricism, juxtaposing the stillness of the rural setting against the disquiet imbued by the impending violence. 

—Mark Quigley

Available for research at UCLA

Restored from the original 16mm color reversal A/B rolls and the original 16mm magnetic soundtrack by UCLA Film & Television Archive.  Laboratory services by Fotokem and NT Picture and Sound.

Restored by UCLA Film & Television ArchiveFunded in part with a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation