I Went to the Zoo the Other Day

Film Information:
Year:

2009

I Went to the Zoo the Other Day

Países:

  

Director:

Luo Li

Color:

B&W

Format:

HD

Duration:

68 min

Cast:

  • Dragana Gavaric, Danilo Ilic

Production:

  • GUIÓN: Luo Li
  • FOTOGRAFÍA: Roland Echavarria, Chris McCarroll, Noe Rodriguez, Lesley Loksi Chan
  • MONTAJE: Luo Li
  • PRODUCCIÓN: Luo Li,
  • Lesley Loksi Chan

Contact:

  • Cloudy Pixels
  • Luo Li
  • 77 Bond St. South
  • L8S 1S8 Hamilton, ON, Canada
  • T +1 905 516 1021
  • E leeandluo@gmail.com

Synopsis

The film’s central core is a couple walking through a zoo while chatting in a completely natural manner. The freedom they display in front of caged animals is disguised only by their conversations about all kinds of subjects, from life in Serbia to the existence of God. But what’s most important here is the way things are seen. The couple observes the caged animals, but then the camera’s eyes are also drawn to the people visiting the zoo. What characteristics they share? Those beings trapped in their cages for life, what are they thinking? What does the people that visit such places look for? The main couple splits and takes separate ways, only to meet again and continue their conversations later. Part documentary, part children’s book adaptation, its fixed shots carefully framed in black and white are haunting both for what they show and for what they fragment. An anthropological eye that puts humans and animals in the same existential level.

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