ZooScope

Tag: farm animals

  • Nomadland. Chloe Zhao. Searchlight Pictures. 2020.

    Chloe Zhao’s 2021 feature film Nomadland explores the conditions of the American landscape, nomadic experiences and estranged relationships of belonging amidst continuously unstable socio-political and economic conditions of the 21st century. Zhao blends a naturalist style of filmmaking with observational realism to explore the stories of nomads living in rural America, employing non-actors to play…

  • God’s Own Country. Dir. Francis Lee. Picturehouse Entertainment. 2017.

    As a film which centers around a farming family, God’s Own Country is inseparable from animal life. Francis Lee sets the 2017 rural drama during the lambing season at a farm, thus crafting a display of the distress caused by animal breeding and the inevitable horror of animal death. Customary to the Social Realist tradition,…