Piaffe

When her sibling Zara (played by a non-binary artist) suffers a nervous breakdown, the introvert Eva is forced to take on Zara’s job as a foley artist. She struggles to create sounds for a commercial featuring a horse, when a horsetail grows out of her body. Empowered by this change in her body, she lures a botanist into an affair, through a game of submission. A visceral journey into control, gender, and artifice, the sensational debut feature of a visual artist introduces the genre of "body pleasure." Shot in a textured, luscious 16mm film, and treating the sound design with warm meticulousness, this is a prime example of cinema that triggers, foreplay, climax, and all sorts of petit morts.