Marker and their animals

Watching Chris Marker's Bestiaire is contemplate his genuine curiosity in the way he regards animals. Indeed, the director somehow features this clip as if his real intention were to stop beings from the daily rush of life in order to take a look around and breathe.

Marker travels with his camera on hands transmitting his most inner thoughts whenever he encounters animals. Moreover, the filmmaker images ranges from the roughest ones such as bulls to the most docile ones such a cat. Similarly, in Marker's eyes, animals are products of how human beings raise them: they can evidence its most furious anger, as shown in Bullfight in Okinawa; and its incredible sweetness as exhibited in Chat écoutant la musique.

Likewise, the sound plays an important role as if were the own voice of the animals. This regard is widely explored in An owl is an owl is an owl, where the camera frames insistently a large variety of owls along a disturbing sound. Hence, in this film, the sound works as if each owl through the intertwined frames were talking to each other in a unintelligible language only Marker may know.

'Bestiaire' tells different short stories related to animals without any particular intention at first glance. Nonetheless, once the seconds run in the film, the entire story offers a poetic experience due to the repetition of sounds and animal images. This last aspect, turns the abstract image of animals into a more down-to-earth image as if they were considered in the same 'superior' category human beings have on Earth.