‘With Horses’ (2023) is a rumination on living and dying on a damaged planet. In the film we encounter a newborn foal born from a dying horse amidst a landscape of plastic waste in the West African country of Burkina Faso. The use of fossil fuels for cheap synthetic plastics has produced a throwaway culture worldwide through economic globalisation. Its toxic residue is distributed throughout the planet and deposited in the earth’s soil, forming a geological layer materially transformed by human activity in the age now known as the Anthropocene. Composed of two long shots, ‘With Horses’ confronts us with the human impact on the non-human world.