WILD FILLY STORY - FILM
Wild Filly Story
2020, video, 4k, 20 min loop
Wild Filly Story is starring a pack of adolescent girls on a horse stable, playing out a fictional, yet custom-fit script that prompts questions of friendship, misfit, normativity, fetishization, and female empowerment. A young girlâs horse is taken away to be slaughtered that the horse community later feast on. A filly is a female horse that is too young to be called a mare.
Wild Filly Story takes place on Pony Ranch Floradorp, a therapy and recreation stable in the outskirts of Amsterdam Noord. The casts are regular visitors or workers at the stable. The young girls method-act through stages of agitation, thriving on the artistâs own rural childhood trauma in Sweden, a horsegirl´s obsessions, and her recent short-lived career as a porn film director: teens pulling hair, grand stallions being objectified, food fights, horse healing, and in the backyard of the barn a kissing scene is being made. A red thread through the film is a loose interpretation of a true story from the artistâs own adolescence: a lean, brace-carrying young girlâs horse is taken away to be slaughtered that the horse community later feast on. A ghostâan EMO teen, white-painted, unfitted, potentially deadâgrimes her way through a hardcore âgabberâ song from the London underground âDrop Deadâ with the gang of horse girls as her backing choir. Meanwhile, scenes span from a couple engaged in cliched kissing in the hay (the male part mockingly says âyour voice is a birdâ borrowing his words from a series of so-called âpoem jeansâ by denim magnate Leviâs) to a cowgirl talking about a stallion having its balls cut off, giggling through her characterization of its masculine rage being tamed.
Text by Rhea Dall





