In the eyes of a beast

Dominique Loreau & 73' — 2011

This movie in the shape of variations questions the border between the western man and the animals. Dominique Loreau went to meet persons and animals which mix in breedings, on the ground of a éthologue, in slaughterhouses, in zoos and museums, in a city, in a room of repetition of dance, during a performance of an actor being transformed into animal. She films the glances of animals on the human beings and those of the human beings on the animals. Then she films the glances, sometimes furtive, of animals on her. Glances which open on the other worlds, enigmatic and which prove that the border which separates us is very permeable …

Belgium

Production: Cobra Films
Co-production: CBA, RTBF, Crossroads
With the support of the Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles et de VOO

Réalisation
Dominique Loreau
Scenario
Dominique Loreau
DOP
Antoine Meert, Etienne de Grammont, Dominique Loreau
Sound
Thomas Grimm-Landsberg, Louis Storm
Image editor
Rudi Maerten
Calibration
Loup Brenta
Production
Cobra Films (Daniel De Valck)
Image Format
Vidéo
Sound Format
Stéréo
BW/Colour
Color
Languages OV
FR
Available subtitles
EN
Festivals

2020 :
Festival en ligne Coupe-Circuit (GSARA), Belgium, 09/20

2011:
Festivache, France, 03/11
Rencontres Cinéma Nature, 04/11
Rencontres Cinématographiques de Bergerac, France, 05/11
Festival Résistances, France, 07/11
Weekend du Doc, Belgium, 11/11
Les Rencontres du Cinéma Documentaire de Fiennes, France, 2011
Documentaire sur Grand Ecran, France, 2011

Projections (non-exhaustive list)

Flagey (Bruxelles)
Cinéma Sauvenière (Liège)

Other films from Dominique Loreau

Names live nowhere

Dominique Loreau & 76/59' — 1994

Divine Body

Dominique Loreau & 59/88' — 1997

As time goes by

Dominique Loreau & 48' — 2006
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