Zoo

Este documental me pareció muy cómico. ¿Quien esta tras las rejas, los hombres o los animales? Las expresiones que logra capturar Haanstra son excelentes, la música es muy buena y ayuda mucho para marcar el tono del filme, es sencillo y divertido.

Zoo es un documental narrativo, vemos a las primeras personas que entran en el zoológico, niños emocionados, ancianos, jóvenes y adultos dirigiendose a las jaulas donde están los animales y observar su comportamiento, como comen y que es lo que hacen, la admiración y sorpresa que genera en el publico, interactuando así una entre animal y hombre o entre animal y animal pensante. 

Bert Haanstra, directór danés nacido en 1916. En 1962 se exhibe su película "Zoo" en la que hace una reflexión de quien es el que está encerrado, se apoya conociendo el lenguaje cinematográfico. Creo que es interesante saber que en este docu fue la primera vez que usó una cámara escondida.

Haanstra spent the following two years working on two wonderful shorts. One was Zoo, a touching and humorous look at the way people and animals behave. This was the first time that Haanstra used a hidden camera. He said: "observing people and animals when they don't know you're there is fascinating. I bonded with them". Making a film of this kind required tact and integrity, and Haanstra and his team were aware of their responsibilities throughout and respected the privacy of their subjects.

Haanstra said that Zoo “was the key to making The Human Dutch. I ended up making these type of films for lack of a good comedy scenario and out of fear of being exaggerated. In the documentaries approach I avoided implausible storylines. In a way I played it safe. I had already developed a routine and felt comfortable with that genre. But it was much more difficult to attract large audiences. Making a blockbuster documentary was unheard of, but it worked!"

In Zoo, Haanstra and cameraman Anton van Munster filmed people with a hidden camera to see how people behave in different situations and environments, without the self-consciousness created by the camera. They concealed the camera in a huge shopping bag, and hid their equipment in bushes, and built sheds with one-way glass. Haanstra observed the Dutch with compassion and wit, and they emerged as people with a sense of sorrow and joy, religion and individualism and, above all, freedom.

(http://www.berthaanstra.nl/english.html)