DEAD HORSE NEBULA

DEAD HORSE NEBULA (NEBULA), 2018
Turkey | DCP, Color, 73’ | Turkish
Director: Tarık Aktaş
Cast: Ali Yavuz Ilman, Barış Mert Bilgi, Ömer Bora

This debut feature by Tarık Aktaş won the Award for Best Emerging Director at the Locarno Film Festival. The story begins with the protagonist Hay at around the age of seven, when he finds a dead horse. At first, he is afraid of it, but then he starts examining the carcass and tries to understand it. Hay then witnesses the way grownups perceive the horse as valuable when it is alive, but as an object that they need to get rid of as quickly as possible once it is dead. As an adult, Hay cuts his leg during a sacrificial rite, which brings back his childhood memories. After this experience, Hay’s perceptions of life, death, nature, earth, and humans will be transported to a different dimension.