Experimentations 9 | Should We Look at Animals?

The Perils and Pleasures of Nonfiction Animal Films. Comparisons between humans and animals are foundational to the experimental branches of medicine and psychology. Often treated as purely transparent scientific recordings, the films produced out of animal research are in fact deeply formalist works that tested what film could capture through the image of an animal—variously proposing that they could visualize pure thought, the processes of history and culture, and the influence of the environment on an organism. With special guest Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa from Seattle.

Tickets: $10 general, $5 students/seniors, free for Filmforum members

$20 for both programs today

A free dinner will be available between the 3 pm and 7 pm programs.

Presented as part of Los Angeles Filmforum's PST ART: Art & Science Collide public screening series Experimentations: Imag(In)ing Knowledge in Film.