Category Archives: Books and Film

Ok, so the kids might like a break from horses. (Missed Part 1? Check it out here.) Let’s unsaddle for a while and take a look at some films and...

With the kids out of school and shuttered inside with the (ugh!) parents for weeks now, this is the perfect time to fill some of those increasingly empty hours with...

Horse lovers tend to be good storytellers. From recounting our first nasty fall to explaining exactly what the horse got into that they were not supposed to, being able to...

We can chalk it up to energy or antics or high spirits or poor manners—whatever it is that might be the “cause,” being pulled around by our four-legged friends is...

As the days of the pandemic trickle forward like water from a kinked hose, many people are feeling more emotions in 24 hours than they usually do in a month....

Half Broke by Ginger Gaffney documents the first year and a half the author spent working with fifty residents and the horses they care for at a prison re-sentencing facility. **** The men...

American Olympian Margie Goldstein showed an affinity for animals long before she ever set foot in a stirrup. Growing up in the country as the youngest of three, she was...

They say the walk is the easiest gait to ruin, but that doesn’t mean we should avoid schooling it altogether! It can’t only be used for rest breaks for the...

The streets have emptied, businesses have closed, and many of the significant spring horse events we wait for all year have been canceled or postponed. COVID-19 may have slowed us...

A good redemption narrative isn't the kind with tidy edges. It is the type of film that shows us breathtaking highs and crippling lows. The kind that has the courage...

It might be mud season outside, but spring has already arrived at EQUUS Film Channel. With 40 new films added this month—on therapeutic riding, racing, rescue, horse cultures big and...

In the time vortex of horse show life, days morph into weeks and hours disappear into minutes. "Real life" takes on a distant otherworldly quality. And the singular, all-absorbing pursuit...

Filmmakers and photographers alike know the difficulties of capturing horses on film. Horses are always moving, the wrong angle makes them look like giraffes, and bad lighting in indoor arenas...

How many of us can describe the first time we saw our dream horse? It can be a little bit like falling in love. Sounds fade into the background, the...

We are all familiar with the scenario: We know our horse isn’t right…he isn’t performing like he used to, doesn’t seem comfortable, his transitions are poor, his willingness lacking. Of...

At first, Sybil H Mair’s short film The Equestrian seems simple: a young man seeks the lost affection of an emotionally absent father through some great achievement. Yet, as this...

One of the most striking scenes in Ceolchuairt Mongolia doesn’t include a fiddle. Instead, the camera focuses on a little sorrel horse, as wild and fierce as the Mongolian winter....

I was in one of the Wrigley Media Group theaters at the EQUUS Film and Arts Festival over the weekend, watching a set of shorts when from somewhere in the...

Shot over 14 days in April and August of 2018, Tails of Iceland delicately weaves the story of how Icelanders and their unique, multi-gaited horses have shaped the culture of the island....

The Equus Film Festival is best defined by passion. Whether a film is about reining, racing, or hunting for the origins of America's wild horses, dedication, love, devotion, and perhaps...