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...April 24 “Facing Animals” colloquium, this scenario is presented as one of many to explore the controversial nuances of ethical animal treatment. “I think our intuitions provide clear direction. We ought to torture the horse,” says Patricia Herzog, panelist and author. Not all panelists agree: Martha C. Nussbaum, a professor of law and ethics at the University of Chicago Law School, recounts a “happy story” about an Asian elephant at the Bronx zoo (named “Happy”) that liked to look...
...available.” The panel also said that change could begin in the classroom. “If I were a Harvard student today, I would seriously consider taking up ethics and animals as an area of study, independent research, or thesis,” said Patricia Herzog, a former professor at Brandeis University. The discussion was intended to present a critical look at how humans perceive themselves in relation to animals, and what they can do to ethically treat animals. Panelists also criticized the argument that humans should be held to a different standard from animals. Martha...
...Maybe so, but Zoo, which has notes of Werner Herzog's 2005 documentary Grizzly Man, caused festival goers to launch into heated debates on the shuttle buses and in the cafes of Park City about such unlikely subjects as whether a stallion can actually give consent and precisely how he might do so. Taxi drivers in town asked their passengers, "Have you seen the horse sex movie?" At a Q&A following one screening, the Seattle actor who plays Mr. Hands, John Paulsen, who is a priest, admitted that after hearing he had gotten the role, he wasn't quite...
...located another kindred spirit in Timothy Treadwell (Grizzly Man), who lived with wild bears for 12 summers and was mauled to death by them in the 13th. But whether Herzog is filming auctioneers, televangelists or Saharan herdsmen, he always finds the drama. Sometimes he invents it, staging scenes to underline some point. He finds the standard documentary form boring and banal--"the truth of accountants." What he deeply believes in is "poetic, ecstatic truth ... that can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization...
That's the artful cunning behind the great ecstasy of filmmaker Herzog. And over 40 years, his audiences have found that ecstasy can be contagious...