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‘Hobbyhorsing’ might seem like a joke, but this documentary takes teen girls and their passions seriously.
During a “good news” segment on her show last month, Ellen Degeneres told her audience that she’d recently read an article about “a new sport that requires gymnastics, skill, strength, and endurance.” With a good-natured smirk, she threw to a clip of teenage girls using elaborately groomed hobbyhorses to prance their way through meticulous dressage routines and leap over equestrian jumps.
“They say that it’s popular because it gives young girls a sense of belonging,” she quipped, as the audience laughed. “They’re going to find out later in life: They don’t belong.”
Since then, similar clips and profiles of Finland’s hobbyhorse community have been popping up in outlets including The Washington Post and ESPN and in viral tweets, eliciting similarly amused reactions.
‘I was laughing, but I wasn’t only laughing.’
Having grown up with some weird but beloved hobbies of my own, I immediately felt defensive of the girls. But Selma Vilhunen, the director behind a brand new documentary on the phenomenon, Hobbyhorse Revolution, admits she laughed, too, when she was first exposed to videos about hobbyhorsing a few years ago. In fact, she’s still a little entertained by the spectacle of toy horses being used to such serious ends in meticulously crafted online communities, structured competitions, and flashmobs.
“It’s still there, this sort of layer of humor, and I allow myself to have it, and other people as well. Even the hobbyists themselves think it sometimes. They include that layer in what they do, as well,” Vilhunen told me. “So I was laughing, but I wasn’t only laughing. It’s like a whole variety of emotions and perceptions that I went through.”
Vilhunen was perhaps uniquely inclined to see the cinematic potential in this burgeoning subculture. She’d watched — and filmed — girls starting to play with hobbyhorses while making her 2008 doc, Pony Girls, about young women who ride and care for real life horses. When she first encountered hobbyhorsing as a sport, she was thrilled to see how organized the activity had become since those days. As someone who had grown up riding horses, she also understood and appreciated the genuine equestrian techniques the girls were applying to their hobbyhorsing. And as part of a women-run film production company, she also felt a certain kinship with these girls who were organizing and running everything from practices to tournaments all by themselves. (“When I started making this film, we were saying that we are also hobbyhorse girls,” she laughs. “Like Tuffi Films is our hobbyhorse stable. We come together and we do things and it’s difficult sometimes, but we are quite persistent.”)
Convinced that there was a film in what she was watching, Vilhunen joined an online hobbyhorse forum that receives several thousand visits a day and started reading its various discussion threads to learn more. Then she posted one of her own about her interest in making a documentary.
“I was a bit nervous because I knew that there were thousands of kids out there somewhere and I was like an auntie hiding behind my laptop. And here they are, they’re teenagers, they’re sort of easily provoked and opinionated, and so I was sometimes really careful with my words,” she says. “But I think that was a very smart thing to do, because It was a very good conversation. A lot of people were involved and expressed their opinions, and they basically taught me about their hobby, which was very important. We then discussed with them what kind of film they would like to see and what they think is important in what’s happening in their scene and what they don’t want to see, how they want to be portrayed, or if they wanted to be filmed in the first place.”
This level of respectful, open dialogue and genuine enthusiasm for hobbyhorsing continued as she selected her subjects and began filming with them. At one point, Vilhunen fashioned her boom mic into a makeshift horse because she wanted in on the fun — “It looks like a hobbyhorse when you have the fur on the mic!” — and had one of her stars, Aisku, give her crew a proper lesson. She also allowed the girls a significant amount of agency as they began to work together, never pushing for more than they were willing to give her and allowing them to build their trust with her over time. Slowly, they started to open up about everything from family issues to the fact that many of them are bullied for what is still considered to be a childish and silly activity by many people in their lives.
“I knew that I needed to be filming for a long time, because that helps to gain trust and just get to know them in a way — and for them to get to know me. They learned that they also have some power over how they’re going to be filmed and how the process will be carried through, because they were able to say ‘No. You can’t film today. I can’t do this now.’ And then I said okay. Sometimes it took a while, and then I came back.”
Many of the girls are bullied for what is still considered to be a childish and silly activity by many people in their lives.
Through the filming process, Vilhunen and her co-writer/editor also realized that it was important to allow the girls themselves to tell their own story, with minimal insight from people outside of the scene or even parents. “We were quite fond of the idea of letting the girls really speak for themselves and make official-looking serious interviews where they got to define their thing in their own words,” she says. “But it’s a very natural choice because the parents are very much in the background and it is the kids who do everything. They really do organize everything on that online forum where they discuss a lot of things, and they have a government body. They have meetings through Skype where they decide on things like the championships and things like that. The parents are just signing papers, or maybe driving kids around.”
Thanks to Vilhunen’s care and respect, Hobbyhorse Revolution is something far more precious, rare, and unexpected than just a 90-minute feature on an intense sport that revolves around a children’s toy. It’s a film that actually takes teen girls and their interests, struggles, and triumphs seriously. It’s also a celebration of the joy that these girls get from pursuing their interests and coming together as a community.
As a former teenage girl whose formative years were ridden with intense interests, bullying, and sometimes being bullied for loving the things I loved so all-consumingly — and as someone who still has a limitless soft spot that has inspired boundless teen girl enthusiasm, from Man From U.N.C.L.E.’s Illya Kuryakin to Duran Duran — I found the film overwhelmingly cathartic. Watching these girls, who openly admit that they’ve been targeted for their interests, decide that they’re willing to risk even more bullying in order to keep doing their thing — and then watching them decide to share that with the world — is amazing enough. But to see these girls not just respected by Vilhunen and her team but actually celebrated is nothing short of, well, revolutionary. Anyone who remembers both the highs and the lows of those years is likely to get teary watching Aisku and her friends galloping through a field, laughing and cheering like nothing else matters in the world. And anyone who was too busy making fun of girls like them to have weird things of their own going on when they were growing up just might find themselves a little jealous of what they’ve missed.
During the editing process, Vilhunen came to the conclusion that she wasn’t just making the film that she wanted to make — she was making the kind of film that she was desperate to see. “I realized that I, too, need this film as a tool for…I hate the word empowerment, because it’s so overused, but I don’t know any other word for it. It’s just strange to sit there and watch it through for the millionth time already and be exhausted with the editing and everything and, at the same time, think that I need this film as an audience member. It does good things to me,” she says. “It’s almost sad that this film is so rare in this way. So we just have to keep on making them.”
Now that hobbyhorsing is starting to receive more attention across the world, Vilhunen hopes that more people take the time to think about the sport and the girls involved — just like she did so many years ago — because this largely girl-run, inclusive, and supportive community is worth so much more than a quick laugh. “I’ve been thinking that because people are so triggered by the material that they’ve seen online [about the community] that this hobby and this film are super important,” she says. “I think we’ve touched something very sensitive here.”
Overcome with hobbyhorse fever at a reception for the film during Toronto’s Hot Docs festival last week, I timidly asked Revolution star and pioneer of the current hobbyhorsing style, Alisa Aarniomäki, for a lesson. Using a horse that Vilhunen had procured for herself during filming and brought along for the promotional tour, I went through some basic dressage techniques. Then, as the rest of the guests stopped to look at us, we broke into a gallop and did some laps of the bar. My form was terrible, and my moderate cardiovascular fitness was no match for the challenge of moderately-paced hobbyhorse riding, but indulging in that brief moment of unabashed geekery was one of the happiest and more carefree moments I’ve experienced in a long time. If anyone was laughing, I didn’t notice.
Author of I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder (April 2020, Douglas & McIntyre). Covers autism and pop culture. Loves wrestling.
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Author of I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder (April 2020, Douglas & McIntyre). Covers autism and pop culture. Loves wrestling.
The conversation is much more interesting when everyone has a voice. Media funded and run by women; new content daily.
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