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Beasts of the Southern Wild

World Cinema

CountryUnited States
Production Year2012
Running Time92min
FormatDCP
ColorColor

Program Note

A girl named, Hushpuppy, lives with her father in a distant land in the southernmost edge of the world. Animals die in her community, turning the “southern land” into a ruin. Even her father becomes ill and Hushpuppy is faced with a crisis. The sequence of Aurochs, prehistoric animals that are ancestors of cow, travelling in an iceberg to come to Hushpuppy is stunning to see. This may be just a girl’s fantasy. Yet the scene where fantasy overlapping with reality, symbolizing the girl’s encounter with the Mother Nature, is photographed beautifully. The scene of the girl communing with Aurochs, which is shot with computer graphics, clearly demonstrates that the “southern land” represents today’s world that lost nature and human heart. Hushpuppy meets her mother, communes with Aurochs, embraces her father ?a miracle-like happy ending to the girl’s journey to self-discovery. (LEE Sang-yong)

Director

Benh ZEITLIN

Benh Zeitlin began his career as a filmmaker at the tender age of 6 when he and a friend made a Batman movie. He continued making films as a child before attending Wesleyan University, where he majored in film. After graduation, he worked with elementary students in New York creating short films. His short films are <Egg> (2005), <The Origins of Electricity> (2006), and <Glory at Sea> (2008). <Beasts of the Southern Wild> is his first feature.

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