I Feel Your Eyes

A dusty plain, as smooth as a sheet of paper. A desert landscape that might as well be a moonscape, especially when a horse and rider dash along the horizon, almost weightless, so fast that suddenly even the camera, equally unimpressed by gravity, can’t follow. But this is just training; the big race is yet to come. The people around the horse are getting more nervous every day. The dark shining horse on the other hand stays cool.

Directed, photographed and edited by Grégoire Verbeke

Sound Design & Mixing: Mohab Ezz

Festival Distribution: Square Eyes

With the support of the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF)

Duration: 17 min

Year: 2019

"Almost an observation documentary built on the dialectic between micro and macro, day and night, interior and exterior. The narration, with extended and relaxed times, proceeds in pictures, highlighting the little details of an everyday reality shared between man and horse. A (not only) physical closeness that translates into true sharing of long waits, sacrifice and laborious preparation for an event that never seems to arrive." 

Corto e Fieno 2020 -  Best Beast Award

DOK Leipzig 2019 - Next Master Short Competition

Tirana IFF 2020, Albania - Short Doc Competition

Corto e Fieno 2020, Italy - BEST BEAST AWARD

IndieCork 2020, Ireland - Short Doc Competition

Spektrum FF 2020, Poland - Short Doc Competition

Bosphorus FF 2020, Turkey - Short Doc Competition

L'Alternativa 2020, Spain - Short Film Competition

PLONS! Short Doc FF Leeuwarden 2021 - Official Selection