Film Description:
"A multilayered montage of 19 century chronophotographs, Muybridge motion studies, anatomical drawings, X-rays, telescopics and Ontario tourism films from the 50s, Animal Movies traces the effects of photography and cinema on our experience of nature. Adapted from cultural theorist Alex Wilson's book The Culture of Nature, Doyle's voice-over provokes a reconsideration of the mechanics of vision."
-- David McIntosh
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Film Description:
"Animal movies traces the effects of photography and cinema on our experience of 'nature'. Judith Doyle's voice-over is 'rewritten, retold, changed' from Alex Wilson's chapter 'Looking at the Non-Human' in his book The Culture of Nature. A Toronto cultural theorist and horticulturalist, Alex died from AIDS in 1993. The appearance of foxes in Doyle's downtown backyard prompted her return to Alex's book. Animal movies is a multilayered montage. Source images include digital video of urban foxes, tourism films from the Archives of Ontario, 19th century chronophotographs by Etienne-Jules Marey, motion studies by Muybridge, anatomical drawings, microphotography, X-rays, telescopics, and Doyle's 1991 videosketches of Alex working on a landscaping project. Doyle, co-editor David McIntosh and compositor Peter Evans manipulated these images with text using AfterEffects and the Avid. Sound designer Kevin Dowler's soundtrack is a potent mix of themes in the film, realized with sound editor Stephen Balen."
-- V tape
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