• Animals and More Animals

  • Circuit

  • Sunday, Jul 24, 2016

    5:30 PM (70 mins)
    BAMPFA

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Animals and More Animals

(Un animal, des animaux)

Nicolas Philibert
France, 1995

Imported Print

For over thirty years the Zoology Hall of the Museum of Natural History in Paris was closed to the public while thousands of stuffed animals were abandoned inside. Animals wittily documents the Hall’s renovation, recording the three years of intense, detail-driven preparation to bring the various inhabitants back to “life.” An incisive testimony to the human desire, or compulsion, to preserve and document.

Lisanne Skyler
FILM DETAILS 

Cinematographer

  • Frédéric Labourasse
  • Nicolas Philibert

Language

  • French
  • with English subtitles

Print Info

  • Color
  • 35mm
  • 59 mins

Source

  • Courtesy Institut Français, thanks to the Cultural Services of the French Embassy

Permission

  • Kino Lorber

Preceded By

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FILM DETAILS 

Print Info

  • Color
  • 35mm
  • 5 mins
source
  • Amie Siegel
source
  • Simon Preston Gallery, New York

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Dana Levy, United States, 2011

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FILM DETAILS 

Print Info

  • Color
  • 35mm
  • 5 mins
source
  • Art Institute of Chicago. Video Data Bank