Some Horses Were Born in Toyshops is a feminist reflection on how symbols of movement, horses, cars, saddles, have long stood in for women’s dreams of freedom. Yet these objects often carry a quiet contradiction: they promise escape, while remaining tightly bound to control, repetition, and performance.
Blending essay film, sculpture, and voice, the work traces how fantasies are shaped in childhood, through toy horses, illustrated books, rocking horses, and how those dreams evolve in adult life, in bodies, tools, and memory. With Kate, an elderly woman who still lives with horses, the film turns toward aging, softness, and resilience.
This is not a search for escape, but a re - reading of what freedom has been made of.
Drawings Kate made in high school, of horses and girls, are embedded into the base of a rocking horse.
It becomes a quiet way to remember how childhood freedom once looked.
“A Toy Horse From Kate’s Collection”