The Rocking Horse Winner

USA
1997, 16mm, B&W, 23 min.

Director: Michael Almereyda
Producers: Michael Almereyda, Steve Hamilton
Cinematographer: Patrick Pousseau
Editor: Steve Hamilton
Screenwriter: Michael Almereyda
Music: Simon Fisher Turner
Principal Cast: Eric Stoltz, Paula Malcomson, Jesse Forrestal

"A haunting adaptation of the D.H. Lawrence story about a young boy with an uncanny ability to predict the outcome of horse races. Shot with a Pixelvision camera and transferred to 16mm, the film has an out-of-this-world look that's perfectly matched to its subject. (Madame Blavatsky would have loved Pixelvision.) The Rocking Horse Winner has a marvelous economy: every image counts and so does every sound. Almereyda is the Hamlet of indie cinema, and he's finally made a film about how 'passing strange' it is to be a human." (Village Voice)