The Case of Nonhuman Cinema: Animal Documentaries at CPH:DOX '25

The Case of Nonhuman Cinema: Animal Documentaries at CPH:DOX '25

“Everywhere animals disappear,” wrote art critic John Berger in his seminal book Why Look at Animals? Berger proposed an argument from capitalism, where the industrialized world order took the animal’s likeness and reproduced it: his examples include “zoos, realistic animal toys and the widespread commercial diffusion of animal imagery.” Animals “withdrawing” from daily life meant man-made machines could step in — even if this correlation seems …