Arts The Seattle Times Visits Zoo
posted by January 14 at 15:20 PM
onIn advance of the film’s debut at Sundance this week, the Seattle Times takes an in-depth look at Zoo, the new documentary written by Charles Mudede, directed by Robinson Devor, and devoted to the Seattle man who was fucked to death by an Enumclaw horse.
As I imagine will be the case with a lot of Zoo’s mainstream press, the Times story is preoccupied with reiterating the fact that Zoo is not a bestiality porno film:
“It is not tabloid, it is an aestheticizing approach,” said Mark Urman of THINKfilms, the New York company that will distribute the movie. “That eliminated the ‘ick’ factor and made it a film, not the sort of thing you’d see on reality-based television…If it were done salaciously or sniggering, it would not only be a disservice to the film but an enormous turn off. [Zoo] is discreet with respect to how it communicates. It is a very serious film.”
Read the full Times story here, and best of luck to Zoo in Utah. (If the Seattle Seagulls can’t earn the Northwest the glory it deserves, maybe the Enumclaw Horse-Lovers can…)
Comments
Wow, those pictures from the documentary look really beautiful. I still don't get it, is it a re-enactment (obviously minus the fatal... money shot), or an explanation of the man's life? Either way, congrats to Mudede, whose posts I don't even read because I wasn't reared with that kind of attention span.
The director looks a lot like a DJ I once met at the Eagle. Same guy?
And any chance the movie will make it to Minneapolis? I've found nothing online.
Why should we support the Bothell Times by reading it?
this charles guy, if he works at the stranger - he should have just acted on his sub conscious desires for/to know more about, horse dick
quiet hand job, photos, ask dan, a movie is acting out in a transfer of feelings -but - charles will still be frustrated
rural folks get very expert about animals and sex - it is universal and very OK, even if city people, cool hipster Seattleists, have very narrowly shaped lives - they are by and large the newly uninformed provincials
the way cool types, seldom leave the clique, and cling to white middle class ideas of the rest of the world, not just sexual stuff ---- very boring by and large
give me well educated rural people any and every time
c'mon--what do you expect for a movie about the horse-fucker? Even the hipsters at THINKfilms reacted with horror and giggles at the idea. You don't make a movie about a horse-fucker (or support your friend who's made one) and get patronizing when people focus on, well, the horse fucking. It was a good piece that gave the microphone for the most part to the filmmakers to explain themselves, with minimal prurience.
Like "The Thin Blue Line," Urman argues, "Zoo" uses re-enactments as a visual device to explore "an aspect of human nature.
Ah, shit. Had quite been looking forward to this picture; but, alas, really hate re-enactments. Oh, well.
And, yes, I find The Thin Blue Line to be overrated.
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