Horses
90 minute feature documentary for BBC Storyville/RTE/West Park Pictures.
The score manipulates location sound recording within the music to reflect the inner life of race horses.
Director: Liz Mermin.
Producers: Aisling Ahmed, Nick Fraser, James Mitchell, Alan Maher
Special jury prize selection at Sheffield Documentary Festival.
“ A sparse but rhythmic electro score by James Burrell somehow evokes an equine viewpoint” – Variety
“ A remarkably odd score that actually sounds like a horse’s idea of music” **** View London
“This remarkable documentary might offer the most searching portrait of equine personality since George Stubbs” **** The Independent
“Intensely strange and fascinating ; resonant music cues” The Artsdesk
“A pleasure to watch” The Guardian