Join us for a screening and Q&A with filmmaker Stefan Pavlovic to discuss his film Looking for Horses.
Looking for Horses is a film about a friendship between a filmmaker and a fisherman who, after losing his hearing in a war, retreat to a remote lake to live in near solitude. The filmmaker, himself struggling with speech and a fractured sense of belonging, finds in the fisherman both a guide and a mirror. Despite their limitations, a bond forms as the fisherman opens his world to the young man—a world of giant catfish, wild horses, vast silences, and sudden storms. For one, the lake is a refuge from a broken land; for the other, it is a way back toward it. As they search for ways to communicate, the camera becomes their shared language. Taking the form of a gentle western, Looking for Horses is a poetic documentary about trauma, survival, and the fragile work of connection.
Program Duration: 88 min
Moderated by Amir Husak, Director of the Graduate Certificate in Documentary Media Studies. Co-produced with Documentary Program Associates Arushi Kalia (Media Studies) and Guili Minkovicius (Media Studies).
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Presented by the School of Art, Media, and Technology's Media Studies Program at Parson's School of Design.
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Stefan Pavlović is an award-winning filmmaker currently based in Amsterdam. His debut feature film Looking for Horses (2021) has been screened at over forty international film festivals, and won fifteen prizes, among others, the Burning Lights Competition at Visions du Reel, Jury Prize at Sarajevo Film Festival, Grand Prix at RIDM, Best Film at Kasseler Dokfest. Stefan was awarded the Prins Bernhard Documentary Stipend in 2021 and was selected for the Berlinale Talents program in 2022. Pavlović is a programmer at the Eastern Neighbours Film Festival in The Hague, the Netherlands. He received his BA in film directing at Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles and his MA at the Netherlands Film Academy in Artistic Research in and through Cinema.
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