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Blood of the Beasts
Le Sang des bêtes
1949 · Film · documentary · 23 min
Directed by Georges Franju
An early example of ultra-realism, this movie contrasts the quiet, bucolic life in the outskirts of Paris with the harsh, gory conditions inside the nearby slaughterhouses. Describes the fate of the animals and that of the workers in graphic detail.
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There is an interesting catalog for an art exhibit whose theme turns on technologies, camera, telescope, microscope, as having altered the imaginative consciousness of humanity.
As I recall, the curators argue these technologies diminished our capacity for awe in the numinal when they depict the cosmos as it really exists.
Cosmos: From Romanticism to the Avant-garde. Jean Clair, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona · 1999
I’ve also heard the counter theory from a film professor of mine in college, Charles Chess. He argued film has the power to manifest strong emotional reactions which our mind/consciousness suppresses.
Offered as proof of his belief, he related the story of a film class field trip to a slaughter house, followed by the class screening the film “Blood of the Beasts” (Original title: Le sang des bêtes. 1949. 22 minutes). Only the film caused students to feel sick, or so he says.