BELA TARR’S THE TURIN HORSE: An Apocalyptic Vision
What happens when an entire culture focuses exclusively on “the little light” and, more than this, consigns the greater Being to oblivion, simply refuses to look in that direction, denies it altogether, and never returns to it? We can get a powerful glimpse of that possible future through a great art work, in this case a movie, about which one critic says, “a glorious, terrifying mystery… drills into the core of your soul.” The Turin Horse is an apocalyptic vision by Béla Tarr, Hungarian cinematographer and collaborator with with László Krasznahorkai who recently won the Nobel prize for literature (2025) “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”
