?O, Zoo!: The Making of a Fiction Film

?O, Zoo!: The Making of a Fiction Film is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Philip Hoffman and released in 1986.[1]

?O, Zoo!: The Making of a Fiction Film
Directed byPhilip Hoffman
Written byPhilip Hoffman
Produced byPhilip Hoffman
Music byTucker Zimmerman
Release date
1986
Running time
23 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

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,[2] 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.[3]

Reception

The film premiered at the 1986 Festival of Festivals.[1] It received a Genie Award nomination for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 8th Genie Awards.[4]

It is also his most successful film to date.[5]

References
  1. Robert Everett-Green, "Celluloid experiments". The Globe and Mail, September 6, 1986.
  2. Canyon Cinema
  3. Joel Rubinoff, "Avant-garde films challenge viewers". Toronto Star, March 13, 1987.
  4. Greg Quill, "Decline rises to top Genie nominations". Toronto Star, February 5, 1987.
  5. Wyndham Wyse, "Philip Hoffman". Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film. University of Toronto Press, 2001. ISBN 9780802083982. p. 100.
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