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Title Zoo
Published Frederick Wiseman (Zipporah), 1993
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (131 min.) : flv file, sound
Summary 880-01 ZOO is a film about the zoo in Miami, Florida, the care and maintenance of the animals by the keepers, the work of the veterinarians and their staff, and the visits to the zoo by people from all over the world. The film presents the wide diversity of interests and activities at the zoo and the interrelatedness of the animal, human, ethical, financial, technical, organizational and research aspects of operating the zoo.. Winner of the Mayor's Award at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival.. "ZOO is a brooding, poignant, poetic consideration of nothing less than the human condition ... The awe and wonder and the gratitude we all feel is up there on the screen, but it is humbling, because as Rabbi Wiseman shows us, we are not adequate to be keepers, no matter how hard we may try or how fervently we may pray for help and guidance."--David R. Slavitt, Chronicles. "Zoo visitors busily photograph, videotape, and peer through various ocular apparatuses as if they couldn't see without them; the dedicated, caring staff assiduously records every aspect of their animal charges' lives, loves, and deaths." - Melissa Pierson, Vogue
880-01/(Q ZOO is a film about the zoo in Miami, Florida, the care and maintenance of the animals by the keepers, the work of the veterinarians and their staff, and the visits to the zoo by people from all over the world. The film presents the wide diversity of interests and activities at the zoo and the interrelatedness of the animal, human, ethical, financial, technical, organizational and research aspects of operating the zoo. Winner of the Mayor's Award at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. "ZOO is a brooding, poignant, poetic consideration of nothing less than the human conditionђ́Œ The awe and wonder and the gratitude we all feel is up there on the screen, but it is humbling, because as Rabbi Wiseman shows us, we are not adequate to be keepers, no matter how hard we may try or how fervently we may pray for help and guidance." ђ́أ David R. Slavitt, Chronicles. "Zoo visitors busily photograph, videotape, and peer through various ocular apparatuses as if they couldnђ́ةt see without them; the dedicated, caring staff assiduously records every aspect of their animal chargeѕђ́ة lives, loves, and deaths." ђ́أ Melissa Pierson, Vogue
Analysis North American Studies
Science
Notes Title from title frames
Film
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Event Originally produced by Frederick Wiseman (Zipporah) in 1993
Notes In English
Subject Zoos -- Florida -- Miami
Documentary-style films.
Sociology.
sociology.
Zoos.
Documentary-style films.
Sociology.
Florida -- Miami.
Genre/Form Documentary films.
Documentary films.
Documentaires.
Form Streaming video
Author Frederick Wiseman (Zipporah) (Firm),