Jeroen Van der Stock

NIGHT HORSE

Japan / Belgium, 2019, 18’30”

A cave with an animal trapped inside? An eyeball vaguely reflecting a horse asleep? A peephole into the black night? A dark side of the globe? With the exception of a few cars passing, some sleepy village is lacking traces of human activity. In the dimly lit interiors of a house no movements are to be detected. A few trucks hit a road that eventually leads to a hallucinogenic crossroads and a stable with a psychedelic horse. The horse is restless and behaves oddly. Under sea level a couple of predator sharks are slowly exploring the waters. The nearby beach remains empty. Some insects do appear, but they can’t stop the night from turning into something more obscure and less comprehensible. The eyeball shelters a horse in many shapes. The dark side of the globe approaches. The peephole sucks itself deeper into the night.

Jeroen Van der Stock
(b. 1979) was born and raised in Belgium. After graduating with a Masters in Audiovisual Arts from the Luca School of Arts Brussels he moved to China where he made his debut film Wild Beast (2008). Van der Stock relocated to Japan in 2009 and continued his audiovisual practice with a.o. Silent Visitors (2012), Dream Box (2017) and Night Horse (2019). His work has been shown at film festivals including Rotterdam, Oberhausen, CPH:DOX, Jeonju, Lima Independiente and RIDM. Van der Stock is currently living and working in Kanagawa, Japan.