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SIFF 2018: CATWALK and THE MOST UNKNOWN
Tue, May. 22nd, 2018 07:07 amCATWALK: TALES FROM THE CAT SHOW CIRCUIT
The title pretty much says it all. This film is a documentary about the people and the cats who go to cat shows, compete for ribbons and bragging rights, and make cat fancying a way of life. It follows a full cat show season through the stories of three or four of the top contenders. Human foibles are on display: competitiveness, practicality and, of course, cat enthusiasm. I was reminded in some ways of the worst of high school drama; I also saw some real generosity toward the animals involved. A fun film for cat lovers, not a great documentary.
THE MOST UNKNOWN
This documentary is presented as an experiment: Nine scientists from nine different disciplines form a daisy chain of inquiry. The nine different segments of the film each follow one scientist through a brief explanation of their own discipline to the scientist profiled in the previous segment via practical demonstration. They work in fields as diverse as astronomy, biology, physics, behavioral psychology and so on. So, for example, a marine researcher takes a geologist into a submersible to study extremophile creatures as methane vents at the bottom of the ocean. Not the most successful doc I've ever seen, but interesting enough.
The title pretty much says it all. This film is a documentary about the people and the cats who go to cat shows, compete for ribbons and bragging rights, and make cat fancying a way of life. It follows a full cat show season through the stories of three or four of the top contenders. Human foibles are on display: competitiveness, practicality and, of course, cat enthusiasm. I was reminded in some ways of the worst of high school drama; I also saw some real generosity toward the animals involved. A fun film for cat lovers, not a great documentary.
THE MOST UNKNOWN
This documentary is presented as an experiment: Nine scientists from nine different disciplines form a daisy chain of inquiry. The nine different segments of the film each follow one scientist through a brief explanation of their own discipline to the scientist profiled in the previous segment via practical demonstration. They work in fields as diverse as astronomy, biology, physics, behavioral psychology and so on. So, for example, a marine researcher takes a geologist into a submersible to study extremophile creatures as methane vents at the bottom of the ocean. Not the most successful doc I've ever seen, but interesting enough.