Bestiaire


Denis Côté – CA/F 2012 – 72 min.foto

K: Johannes Flütsch, Manfred Stelzer, Rainer März – S: Elisabeth Förster – P: Regina Ziegler

16mm – Deutsch

Bundesfilmpreis 1980

 

 

 

A drawing course, a safari park and a taxidermist's workshop: three settings in which humans and animals meet. The focus of observation is on relationships of sight and perception, which often reflect unequal power structures at the same time. In the process, the film also seems to be considering the question of how animals can be filmed. Sober visual observation without commentary, with an often static camera watching proceedings from a fixed position with a keen eye for form and movement. This all allows a form of choreography to emerge to the accompaniment of the surrounding noises, a cinematic bestiary in which man too takes his place among the stoic, impassive, impatient, wild and rebellious animals. – Anna Hoffmann, Berlinale

 

Denis Côté was born on November 16, 1973 in New Brunswick, Canada. He produced and directed around fifteen low-budg- et short films while working as a radio show host and as a film critic for Ici, a weekly cultural newspaper.

Films (selection): Les états nordiques 2005 – Nos vies privées 2007 – Elle veut le chaos 2008 – Carcasses 2009 – Curling 2010