A megalith rises from a sandy desert – or rather, a scale model of such a landscape. “I am the archive”, says a young female voice while ominous str
A megalith rises from a sandy desert – or rather, a scale model of such a landscape. “I am the archive”, says a young female voice while ominous string music nails viewers to their seats. This opening sets the stage for the narrative and figurative language of Rithy Panh’s dense mnemonic essay which uses stunning dioramas to tell a twenty-first century dystopian story. After a century of genocidal ideologies and destructive speciesism, animals have enslaved humans and taken over the world. In a wave of hope, the statues of the past have been removed but new ones are being erected to suppress the will of the people. This is now a planet of apes, boars and lions, and a zoological revolution is reversing and recreating the atrocities of the 20th century. As animal figures watch the film archives of our world, it feels as if Lumière has been transported into a film by Méliès or Willis H. O’Brien. We are all well aware that history repeats itself first as tragedy, then as a farce. The time has now come for this farce, in which “political language inhabits our dreams and consumes us”, to allow the possibility of a “graceful and tender insubordination” to emerge.
主演:萨拉·莫滕森 Sara Mortensen,罗拉·德瓦瑞 Lola Dewaere,米夏埃尔·科恩,卡蜜儿·德·帕兹,布鲁诺·沃尔科维奇,塞尔日·费拉德,萝拉·勒兰恩,范蕾丽尔·卡帕里斯基,丽露·弗格利,奥利维亚·波纳梅,伊凡·弗拉内克,佛洛伦丝·托马辛,菲利普·杜克斯纳,泽维尔·马修,奥利维尔·雷堡汀,尼可拉斯·旺克奇基