BLOCK 3. Of Humans and Animals

Training, Take-Off, Grand Prix. Legacy is one of the most valuable and celebrated horses in show jumping. In pursuit of victories, she is flown between competition venues across the globe. Air Horse One follows Legacy on her long journeys in the business class of equine air travel.

In a small interior space where bodies constantly yearn for sleep, the filmmaker seeks in her beloved Henry something soft and tender to inhabit, a little fur to retreat into. Between bedsheets and freckles, a love declaration emerges, a fragile collage tracing a pathway between intimacy, vulnerability, and warmth. An ode to our captive pets, and to the intimate worlds where we learn to live and to rest.

A whimsical filmmaker turns to his austerely rational mother, a zoologist, for help filming animals. Along the way, they meet a gorilla terrified of cameras, penguins haunted by their own shadows, and a sleepless anaconda. As memories of wild tigers and pet rabbits resurface, the zoologist is compelled to question her relationship with animals.

Night falls on the island of Zuania, once a military base, now a coveted tourist destination in the Caribbean. Turtle hatchlings head for the sea as a ferry packed with visitors arrives. A guide leads us inland, where another species of free-roamers is proliferating.