Oscilloscope Isn’t Horsing Around with Ann Oren’s “Piaffe”

This week the Oscilloscope folks went shopping adding a Locarno comp title to their future slate. The company lands Ann Oren‘s Piaffe – which is also programmed in the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera competition at this year’s San Sebastian Film Festival. Same category as Berlinale’s Robe of Gems and Cannes’ Un Certain Regard’s Godland. Oscilloscope is planning a traditional theatrical release for the film in 2023. So expect more film festival play abroad and in the U.S. Our Nicholas Bell was pleased by Oren’s feature fiction debut:

“Often resulting in sexual liberation, Ann Oren’s arresting debut, Piaffe, dives headlong into allegory. Titled for the dressage movement in horse training exhibition where the rider sits atop a horse while essentially trotting in place, Oren quickly assumes the Kafkaesque position when her protagonist embarks upon a strange transformation instigated by an occupational catalyst. A fantastical homage to the magical attributes of cinema and the untapped eroticism lurking within our primordial brains, Oren constructs a hypnotic exercise of metamorphic hedonism.”