Horseboy
This film is a reinterpretation of the Son of the White Horse as a Hungarian superhero who arrives from a shamanic past to an imaginary 21st century Budapest in search of his nemesis, Kapanyányi Monyók. Kapanyányi represents a polymorphous, corrupting demonic force that he wants to fight but always slips out of his grasp.
We are in the French garden of the Royal Palace at the knighting and the inauguration ceremony of Bruiser as Lord Chancellor. The television networks are also broadcasting. On the streets of the city a protest march against the monarchy turns violent.
In addition to the Royal Hussars lines in the garden the Buryat-Bummo cavalry lines up also. Horseboy is present, as Crown Prince. When the King is about to knight Bruiser with the sword, Horseboy intervenes and shows his third eye as a superhero tearing off his shirt. Bummo quickly acquires the sword and puncture the eye of the Son of the White Horse thrusting the sword deep inside his chest.
Subsequently a fantastic conversion occurs.
This project was concieved in 2009 while I was still in LA, Californa. My friend Zsolt Krajcsik, a VFX guru prompted me to create a short film based on a rep group Bëlga’s song called The Son of the White Horse. Most of the principal design was ready, but I was in the process of moving to Hungary. It seemed to be a good idea to pursue this project there, since the story is based on a Hungarian fairytale.
I have written a synopsis and a full script for a feature length film and started shopping it around in Hungarian studios. The interest was there, but money wasn’t. The jointly submitted project for support by the Hungarian Film Institute was rejected.
I still made a trailer for the movie that Edit András, an art historian saw and she curated it in her international exhibition entitled Private Nationalism –Imagined Communities and Personal Imaginations in 2015. This exhibition traveled from Budapest to Berlin and New York. Ms. Edit András also included this project her seminal book Trespasser Imagination (Határsértő Képzelet) – Contemporary Art and Critical Theory in Eastern Europe (2023) published by the Humanities Research Center Art History Institute, Budapest. ISBN: 978-615-5133-21-3