Bryony Dunne | 2022 | Ireland | 61’ | English

As a gentle after-surrealistic slide from the Amsterdam Film Meeting festival at Cavia, we have programmed Surrender Your Horns, followed by a Q&A with its director Bryony Dunne. A docu-fiction about a lonely Irishman who, after sniffing powdered horn, undergoes a Kafkaesque metamorphosis into a man with the head of a rhinoceros. Embodying both the hunter and the hunted,  he guides us into a series of real and fantasy worlds. Documentary footage merges with the Theatre of the Absurd-style performances of unicorn nightclubbers, reproductive biologists, and horn smugglers. This tragedy comes into existential focus as rhinos are not only hunted in life but also in death.