{"id":777843,"date":"2025-03-18T08:47:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T12:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=777843"},"modified":"2025-03-18T10:18:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T14:18:34","slug":"unanimal-new-documentary-explores-the-relationship-between-humans-and-other-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=777843","title":{"rendered":"‘Unanimal’: New documentary explores the relationship between humans and other animals’"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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'Unanimal' is an imaginative and philosophical documentary exploring the complex relationship between humans and animals in the Anthropocene era. Narrated by Isabella Rossellini, directors Sally Jacobson and Tuva Bj\u00f6rk challenge humanity's perception of its dominance over other species. The film invites viewers to reconsider our place in the world and our interactions with animals. The directors explain: 'We are now witnessing a tipping point, where the separation we have made for ourselves has become a limitation. Instead of separating, it\u2019s time to explore and celebrate the connections between us and other animals, the possibilities for adaptation, learning, and living together'.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n

GEORG SZALAI:<\/strong> \u201cImagine that you are a jellyfish,\u201d says the voice of Oscar nominee Isabella Rossellini at the start of a trailer for ‘Unanimal’, a new documentary by directors Tuva Bj\u00f6rk and Sally Jacobson, which The Hollywood Reporter can exclusively reveal. In the movie, Rossellini\u2019s voice leads viewers through \u201ca self-reflecting journey into the complex relationship between humans and other animals.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

With humor and curiosity, the doc looks to \u201cuncover animals\u2019 astounding adaptations to our urban, modern lives\u201d and invite the audience to think about \u201cour shared presence in a world dominated by man,\u201d according to a synopsis. It moves \u201cfrom the living conditions of inner city rats and pigeons to absurd spectacles by which we are surrounded under hyper-capitalism: three goldfish being sold for the price of one, monkeys negotiating a deal on coca cola with the zookeepers and horses being transported across the globe on jumbo jets.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

One key question explored is what we can learn about ourselves \u201cby looking at other animals.\u201d Or: \u201cWhat can we learn about ourselves by looking at the line that separates us from the rest of the living?\u201d as narrator Rossellini puts it in the film… We are interested in the relationship between physical reality and visual culture,\u201d the directors explain in their directors\u2019 statement about the film. \u201cHow can images challenge the dominant chrono-normative human-animal relationship?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

They also highlight: \u201cRather than presenting moral statements on relations between human and other animals, we want to allow the viewer to meditate on the subject on their own premises. It is impossible to see from the perspective of the nonhuman, but we can position the camera inside the cages at the zoo, behind the display glass in the pet shop, and in front of the crowd at the racecourse in order to study the human observing the nonhuman”…<\/em><\/p>\n

“We are now witnessing a tipping point, where the separation we have made for ourselves has become a limitation, alienating us from the ecosystem we are inseparable from and depended on,\u201d Bj\u00f6rk and Jacobson highlight. Instead of separating, it\u2019s time to explore and celebrate the connections between us and other animals, the possibilities for adaptation, learning, and living together.\u201d SOURCE…<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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