One of the films that gets a lengthy treatment in my book Ecologies of the Moving Image is Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man, about the death of Timothy Treadwell at the hands of a brown bear in Alaska. I characterized it there as a complex and nuanced film that provides a series of somewhat contradictory — but cognitively and […]
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The cosmopolitics of Herzog’s bears
Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, tagged Alutiiq, animal philosophy, cosmopolitics, Finn Yarbrough, Grizzly Man, queer ecologies, shamanism, Timothy Treadwell, Werner Herzog on June 12, 2015 | 1 Comment »