![]() A shot or two is left out of the sequence, for the sake of asymmetry. Some shots are separated by blackouts with film credits on them. Patters upon patterns upon patterns.Īt right: The opening of "A Zed & Two Noughts," by the numbers. License plate: 26 (letters in alphabet), B/W (black and white). Greenaway's most recent film, "Nightwatching" (which I unfortunately missed in Toronto), is a deconstruction of Rembrandt's famous painting, "The Night Watch," and the murder mystery behind it. It is also ravishingly beautiful, in a striking and painterly fashion (photographed by Greenaway's frequent collaborator, Sacha Vierney, 1919 - 2001). ![]() And it's a study in mortification (again, in all senses of that word). It's also extremely funny (emphasis on "extreme," in every way), full of visual and verbal puns and puzzles. "ZOO" is about ways of processing grief and facing the reality of death, and about photography as a means of recording and preserving the processes of change and decay. The sounds of a crash and a scream are heard. The archive contains contains information on film, TV and interactive productions that were screened at past festival editions. Followed by repetition/continuation of #5, close-up of hand with counter, clicking to a symmetrical 676. Title: A Zed and Two Noughts Year: 1985 Duration : 1 hour, 55 minutes Category: Feature film Edition: NFF 1986. The film is narrated by the great voice of BBC nature documentaries, David Attenborough. There also a character named Venus de Milo ( Frances Barber, with two arms) and a mysterious, black-clad character called Van Hoyten ( Joss Ackland). There are black-and-white circles of light and shadow within the squares of the cell and the bars. Animation & Artists Moving Image 1985 117 mins. Someone appears to be sitting outside the tiger's cage, counting the number of times it paces from one side of the cell to the other. Following a fatal car crash involving a swan outside a zoo, twin-brother zoologists Oliver and Oswald become fascinated by the processes of decay. The other is later removed for the sake of symmetry.Ī hand with a counter. Following a fatal car crash involving a swan outside a zoo, twin-brother zoologists Oliver and Oswald become fascinated by the processes of decay. They both become sexually involved with Alba Bewick (Andréa Ferréol), the only survivor of the accident, who has lost one leg because of it. ![]() They become obsessed with death and decay, making time-lapse photographic studies of decomposition, beginning with an apple and continuing through the alphabet to a zebra. There's a story: Twin brothers Oswald and Oliver Deuce (played by identical twins Brian and Eric Deacon) are shattered when both their wives are killed in a collision with a pregnant swan outside the London Zoo. Find trailers, reviews, synopsis, awards and cast information for A Zed and Two Noughts (1985) - Peter Greenaway on AllMovie - This twisted black comedy is. On the floor is the head of another black-and-white animal, a zebra, that perhaps provides food for the tiger. ![]() A tiger, a striped cat, in a cage with bars, stripes. ![]()
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