Not a single caballus is borne tamed

Abstract

As a Final Integrative Work (TIF) of the Degree in Social Communication, this report accompanies the production of a journalistic documentary called "No Horse is born tamed": through the audiovisual format, through the analysis in particular of the Human-Horse link, the abuse to the rest of the species and the anthropocentric position that derive in cultural practices as much as in moral considerations towards an "other"[1]  constructed historically from the instrumentalization.

This TIF was intended to address the relationship of domestication to the Horses as a starting point to lay the foundations of animal exploitation in general, today and historically. The genre of journalistic documentary allows to show the reality of the animals in the different uses perpetuated in conjunction with the staging of the voices of different specialists through in-depth interviews; The complaint that characterizes the format focuses on hidden abuses within equine use and raises the consequences of overproduction of capitalist property-ownership and non-human exploitation as the main causes of the ecological and food crisis.

The result of this thesis is a product of approximately 27 minutes of duration, dynamic and topical, that in addition to presenting itself to the Jury is thought to spread the problem from free diffusion platforms and is proposed as the first of a series of similar materials that Embrace the anthropocentric look and the speciesism from the audiovisual and the field of Communication.

Likewise, in the first part of this report the technical file of the documentary (theme, synopsis, recipients, aesthetic proposal, etc.) is detailed, the steps prior to the choice of theme and gender, the different justifications and objectives work.

In the second, the key words, the context and the theoretical framework are developed, where an investigation is found on the Human-Horse link and the most significant authors and concepts of "anti-speciesism", Animal Studies and anthropocentrism are exposed.

Finally, in addition to the conclusions, ideas are presented for possible future productions, and the guidelines for an inclusion of the problematic issues within the academic field from a communicational perspective are outlined.

[1] In the Spanish version of the text the "x" is used instead of the "o" for a broader categorization of the masculine and feminine gender in words like "humanx" (human) and "caballx" (horse). Among others the use of the "x" as a replacement for "o" in those words that are not necessarily naming the masculine gender is justified later.