Wikipedia article
'?O, Zoo!: The Making of a Fiction Film' is a 1986 experimental Canadian documentary film directed by Philip Hoffman.[Robert Everett-Green, "Celluloid experiments". 'The Globe and Mail', September 6, 1986.]
Synopsis
Based in part around the making of Peter Greenaway's 1985 film 'A Zed & Two Noughts' and constructed primarily from found footage made by his grandfather who onced worked as a newsreel cameraman,[[https://canyoncinema.com/catalog/film/?i=1186 Canyon Cinema]] the film interrogates the distinction between fiction and documentary filmmaking through various meditations on the narrative assumptions and inventions that people attach to the neutrality of visual images; its most noted scene narrates the death of an elephant, without ever actually showing the animal.[Joel Rubinoff, "Avant-garde films challenge viewers". 'Toronto Star', March 13, 1987.]
Reception
The film premiered at the 1986 Festival of Festivals.[ It received a Genie Award nomination for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 8th Genie Awards.][Greg Quill, "Decline rises to top Genie nominations". 'Toronto Star', February 5, 1987.]
It is also his most successful film to date.[Wyndham Wyse, [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Take_One_s_Essential_Guide_to_Canadian_F/m4Y_OgckDmIC?hl=en&gbpv=1 "Philip Hoffman"]. 'Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film'. University of Toronto Press, 2001. . p. 100.]
See also
*Postmodernist film
*Cinema of Canada
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