{"id":8755,"date":"2013-09-01T20:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T00:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=8755"},"modified":"2013-08-31T13:06:43","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T17:06:43","slug":"bestiaire-2012-denis-cote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/8755","title":{"rendered":"Bestiaire (2012, Denis C\u00f4t\u00e9)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katy thought this was a boring movie where nothing happens until I told her to treat it not as a movie but as a series of motion photographs.  Camera is mostly still, and half the frame is usually a wall &#8211; a favorite trick is to shoot only wall and let animals slowly wander into view.  Shot at a Quebec zoo, with the occasional custodian and a parade of customers at the very end (plus a taxidermist, some sketch artists, but mostly animals and walls). C\u00f4t\u00e9&#8217;s statement in the press notes declares that it can&#8217;t be a documentary since it has no subject, but he doesn&#8217;t offer what it might be instead. &#8220;Something indefinable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/bestiaire3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>C\u00f4t\u00e9:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But where is the salvation between the puppies on YouTube and a boa constrictor&#8217;s reproductive cycle narrated in eight chapters? How should one look at an animal (and find a cinematic language specific to this act)? Is it possible to shoot animals other than through the lens of entertainment or for a non-educational purpose? Neither actor nor story catalyzer, cannot an animal be contemplated and filmed simply for what it is? &#8230; The immense field of contemplative cinema offers elements of an answer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/bestiaire1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image13\/bestiaire2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katy thought this was a boring movie where nothing happens until I told her to treat it not as a movie but as a series of motion photographs. Camera is mostly still, and half the frame is usually a wall &#8211; a favorite trick is to shoot only wall and let animals slowly wander into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,239,391,1719,93,1718],"class_list":["post-8755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-birds","tag-canada","tag-denis-cote","tag-documentary","tag-zoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8755"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8774,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8755\/revisions\/8774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}