My Winnipeg. Guy Maddin, 2007.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #741, released 2015. English language. Runtime approximately 80 minutes.
Summary: Fantasy images of frozen horses.
Details: While most of My Winnipeg is traditional cinematography, a cut-paper animation 1:02:36 through 1:03:18 tells a story of horses trying to cross a partially frozen river to escape a fire. The horses freeze in the river with their heads exposed. An additional minute of traditional filmography shows people interacting among simulated horse heads protruding up through the ice.
The Criterion Blu-ray also includes the 3-minute animation Louis Riel for Dinner (Drew Christie, 2014) in which the head is cut off of a plated duck at a dinner table, and the following short films by Guy Maddin, all free of animal violence:
My Winnipeg: Live in Toronto (2008, 9 minutes)
Spanky: To the Pier and Back (2008, 4 minutes)
Sinclair (2007, 2 minutes)
Only Dream Things (2012, 17 minutes)
The Hall Runner (2014, 4 minutes)