To what extent can we ever understand the experiences of nonhuman animals? And to what extent do we even understand our own? These questions sit at the heart of the short poetic documentary Animal Eye, which probes the diverse visual worlds of creatures big and small.
For the film, the US director Carlo Nasisse pairs the reflections of philosophers and scientists with ruminative in-the-lab images of a wide range of animals. Starting from the biology, beauty and mystery of the eye, Nasisse constructs a broader exploration of the limits of human understanding, and our drive to keep looking regardless. Producers: Maria Luisa Santos, Dominic Yarabe To understand how an animal sees the world, start with the shape of its pupils Are zoos and natural history museums born of a desire to understand, or to control?
The inadvertent art of tiny bodies – stunning, hidden patterns of animal movement It takes a careful blend of science, craft and compassion to make a prosthetic eye How a ‘periodic table’ of animal intelligence could help to root out human bias How might the dreamworlds of other animals differ from our own? To understand the limits of human senses, look to the wild world of animal cognition An unflinching look at a provocative public dissection of a ‘surplus’ zoo lion
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