Directed by Charles Burnett
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
Producer: Charles Burnett. Screenwriter: Charles Burnett. Cinematographer: Ian Conner. Editor: Charles Burnett. Cast: Gordon Houston, Maury Wright, Gary Morrin, Roger Collins, George Williams.
16mm, color, 14 min.
Restored from the original 16mm color reversal A/B rolls and the original 16mm magnetic soundtrack by UCLA Film & Television Archive’s preservation department. Laboratory services by Fotokem and NT Picture and Sound.
