I Went To The Zoo The Other Day

The act of seeing evokes different stories inside us. To what extent are these narrated stories through which we communicate and gain understanding? Animals and humans serve less as objects of comparison than as projection screens for what is conscious and unconscious. All films are recent and do almost entirely without language. In 1925 Béla Balázs highlighted the significance of cinema for the formation of language: "Modern society has lost body language and gesturing; we can regain them in the cinema of silent movies – especially a language of eroticism." (Balázs 1925)