Wednesday, August 27, 2014, 7:30 PM
Brooklyn Academy of Music Rose Cinemas
30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Marker’s affection for animals extends beyond his well-documented love for cats, as shown in these alternately whimsical and reflective essays on creatures great and small. In French with English subtitles.
Bestiary
Directed by Chris Marker
Run time: 17min
This collection of five short-shorts features a trip to an owl aviary, an elephant dancing to Stravinsky’s “Tango,” and, of course, Marker’s beloved feline alter-ego, Guillaume-en-Egypte.
Les hommes de la baleine (1956)
Directed by Mario Ruspoli
Run time: 28min
Marker wrote the commentary for this thrilling documentary on whale hunting in the Azores, about which Éric Rohmer said, ”makes us admire man, nature, and, upon leaving, cinema, which sings the greatest of both so well.”
Three Cheers for the Whale (1972)
Directed by Chris Marker & Mario Ruspoli
Run time: 17min
Marker and Italian co-director Mario Ruspoli explore man’s relationship to the much-mythologized mammal—including their slaughter—in this essay film, which carries an impassioned ecological message.
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