Zoologische Gesellschaft

As objects of cinematography, animals are quite flamboyant: alien and at the same time peculiarly human in their behavior. In her work, the visual artist Ann Oren arranges audio-visual recordings of zoo-animals. It emerges a fine web of seeming relation: action and reaction, call and response, a play that finally culminates into a collective animalistic concert. Relating the different animals to each other through audio-visual montage creates the impression of a relationality amongst the animals; a society of animals. The film thus comments not only on the communities inside and amongst the zoos, but on (human) communities, who created zoos as both, counter-image and self-reflection.

  • Duration: 10 Min.
  • Countries: Germany
  • Languages: No language
  • Subtitles: No subtitles
  • Production year: 2021
  • Premiere: German Premiere

  • Director: Ann Oren