BuffyMars
01-24-2007, 10:32 AM
It burns me up that people are marketing this movie and will make a profit off of a documentary like this. It's disgusting and should never be shown!
I don't care if they show anything or not! Just the idea of showcasing such a disgusting way of life is beyond me!
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In the predawn hours of July 2, 2005, a dying man was dropped off at a rural emergency room in the Pacific Northwest. A surveillance camera captured the license plate of the car that deposited the man at the hospital. This led detectives to a nearby horse farm, where they found hundreds of hours of videotape of men from all over the world having sex with Arabian stallions. The man's cause of death was a perforated colon.
Although this incident made headlines and the tabloid news, Zoo is the complete antithesis of what you expect. Robinson Devor's filmmaking is as smart as it is eloquent. To begin with, Zoo is neither graphic nor exploitive. Most of it takes the form of recreations, but from the point of view of the men "who met for years without disturbance in the shadows of Mt. Rainier," as Devor puts it. He cleverly captures the essence of these men and their alienation by creating a visual poetry.
The cinematic language invented for the film permits us to examine where we draw the line, how much perversity we can tolerate in others. In a broader sense, Zoo is really about thresholds. What can we stand to know, and, more importantly, what can we stand to accept?— John Cooper
Screenwriters : Charles Mudede, Robinson Devor
Executive Producers : Garr Godfrey, Ben Exworthy
Producers : Peggy Case, Alexis Ferris
First Assistant Director/Coproducer : Megan Griffiths
Cinematographer : Sean Kirby
Editor : Joe Shapiro
Composer : Paul Moore
Screening Times
Saturday , Jan 20 8:30 PM Holiday Village Cinema II ZOOOO202N
Sunday , Jan 21 10:30 PM Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC ZOOOO21BN
Tuesday , Jan 23 2:30 PM Library Center Theatre ZOOOO23LA
Wednesday , Jan 24 12:15 PM Holiday Village Cinema III ZOOOO243D
Friday , Jan 26 11:59 PM Holiday Village Cinema III ZOOOO263L
Screens With:
Motodrom
Director(s) Bios
Robinson Devor
Robinson Devor's feature directorial debut, The Woman Chaser, screened at the 1999 New York Film Festival and the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. His second feature, Police Beat, premiered at Sundance in 2005 and was named one of the year's best by the New York Times. Called "emotionally devastating" by Rolling Stone and "Sundance at its best" by the Los Angeles Times, Police Beat earned Devor nominations for a 2005 Gotham Award and a 2006 Independent Spirit Award.
Film Contact
Alex Klenert
Think Film
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For more info you can read about it at http://festival.sundance.org/2007/index.aspx.
I don't care if they show anything or not! Just the idea of showcasing such a disgusting way of life is beyond me!
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In the predawn hours of July 2, 2005, a dying man was dropped off at a rural emergency room in the Pacific Northwest. A surveillance camera captured the license plate of the car that deposited the man at the hospital. This led detectives to a nearby horse farm, where they found hundreds of hours of videotape of men from all over the world having sex with Arabian stallions. The man's cause of death was a perforated colon.
Although this incident made headlines and the tabloid news, Zoo is the complete antithesis of what you expect. Robinson Devor's filmmaking is as smart as it is eloquent. To begin with, Zoo is neither graphic nor exploitive. Most of it takes the form of recreations, but from the point of view of the men "who met for years without disturbance in the shadows of Mt. Rainier," as Devor puts it. He cleverly captures the essence of these men and their alienation by creating a visual poetry.
The cinematic language invented for the film permits us to examine where we draw the line, how much perversity we can tolerate in others. In a broader sense, Zoo is really about thresholds. What can we stand to know, and, more importantly, what can we stand to accept?— John Cooper
Screenwriters : Charles Mudede, Robinson Devor
Executive Producers : Garr Godfrey, Ben Exworthy
Producers : Peggy Case, Alexis Ferris
First Assistant Director/Coproducer : Megan Griffiths
Cinematographer : Sean Kirby
Editor : Joe Shapiro
Composer : Paul Moore
Screening Times
Saturday , Jan 20 8:30 PM Holiday Village Cinema II ZOOOO202N
Sunday , Jan 21 10:30 PM Broadway Centre Cinemas VI, SLC ZOOOO21BN
Tuesday , Jan 23 2:30 PM Library Center Theatre ZOOOO23LA
Wednesday , Jan 24 12:15 PM Holiday Village Cinema III ZOOOO243D
Friday , Jan 26 11:59 PM Holiday Village Cinema III ZOOOO263L
Screens With:
Motodrom
Director(s) Bios
Robinson Devor
Robinson Devor's feature directorial debut, The Woman Chaser, screened at the 1999 New York Film Festival and the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. His second feature, Police Beat, premiered at Sundance in 2005 and was named one of the year's best by the New York Times. Called "emotionally devastating" by Rolling Stone and "Sundance at its best" by the Los Angeles Times, Police Beat earned Devor nominations for a 2005 Gotham Award and a 2006 Independent Spirit Award.
Film Contact
Alex Klenert
Think Film
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For more info you can read about it at http://festival.sundance.org/2007/index.aspx.