Zoo Piece

"Zoo Piece" is the fifth and final entry of Chris Marker's Bestiary, a swift stream of brief experimental documentary shorts by Marker. While the other four films focused on one species of animal in particular, this film features several that Marker films at the zoo in an increasingly sad way. It judges the concept of a zoo, powerfully displaying animals locked in cages, but it also celebrates the zoo's way to provide the public with glimpses of many of Marker's favorite species as well as providing the animals with a mostly peaceful and safe habitat. It is neither pro or anti zoo necessarily, instead it is a little bit of both. A simultaneously sad and goodhearted peek at various species through the eyes of a unique and brilliant artist.

Un mar de sensibilidad. Una gota de tristeza. . . .