Synopse
A drawing course for students, a taxidermist's workshop, a safari park in Québec: Bestiaire is no classical nature documentary or zoo portrait.It is a visually outstanding study of domesticated wildlife and our relationship with it.Director Denis Côté makes his observations of the animals and their environment mostly from a fixed camera position.His commentary contains no value judgments, preferring to reflect the viewers' perception back at them, including the reflex to imagine narration where there is none. A film about the foreignness of the wild and our strategies against it.
Regie
DENIS CÔTÉ (*1973) is one of the most interesting directors in Canadian cinema. FILMFEST HAMBURG has shown All That She Wants (2008), Carcasse (2009), Curling (2010), Bestiaire (2012) and A Skin So Soft (2017).
Info
Original Title: Bestiaire
International Title: Bestiaire
Category: Documentary feature
Section: Quebéc Deluxe
Version & Subtitles: no dialogue, - OV
Director & Screenplay: Denis Côté
Production country: France, Canada
Year of Production: 2012
Length: 72 min
Producer: Denis Côté, Sylvain Corbeil
Production company: Metafilms
Cinematography: Vincent Biron
Editor: Nicolas Roy
Music: No Music
World Sales: FiGa Films
Distributor: Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V.
