My Frieze review of the bleak and lyrical film, War Pony (2022) - my first film review in ages ! →
Excerpt: Shot on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, War Pony (2022) documents such abject poverty – chronic joblessness, addiction, shed-like trailer homes, bands of kids left to fend for themselves – that it might almost seem gratuitous, were it not for the fact that the region is one of the poorest in America. This hardscrabble land, long forsaken by the US government, is home to the Oglala band of Lakota Sioux and sits adjacent to Wounded Knee, the infamous site where, in 1890, federal soldiers massacred almost 300 Lakota. While never overtly addressed, the spectre of this genocide, alongside many other injustices, looms large throughout this bleak yet lyrical film.