Local Nature of Things doc Equus rides boldly through history with horses

It’s said dog is man’s best friend, but Edmonton’s resident filmmaker anthropologist Niobe Thompson has other ideas.
For the past three years, the Cambridge-educated adventurer and his film crew redlined the globe, building a case that it is actually to mighty horses humanity owes its greatest interspecies debt, even though at roughly 6,000 years they’re late into the domestication game compared to our longtime familiars, cats and dogs.
“My fascination is with human