简介： 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.
克里斯·海姆斯沃斯,布莱恩·泰里·亨利,斯嘉丽·约翰逊,科甘-迈克尔·凯,乔恩·哈姆,史蒂夫·布西密,劳伦斯·菲什伯恩,凡妮莎·利古力,乔恩·贝利,杰森·科诺皮索斯,埃文·迈克尔·李,詹姆斯·瑞马尔,小伊萨克·C.辛格尔顿,史蒂夫·布卢姆,钟金妮,乔什·库雷,Dillon Bryan,Misty Lee