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A Zed and Two Noughts, Fri October 26
2007, 7:00 & 9:15

Restoed Peter Greenaway Prints

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A Zed and Two Noughts
Restoed Peter Greenaway Prints
Fri October 26
2007, 7:00 & 9:15

Oswald and Oliver Deuce (Brian and Eric Deacon) are brothers, separated conjoined twins, who are both zoologists. Their wives are both killed in a car crash. The driver of the car, Alba Bewick (Andréa Férreol), collides with a swan escaped from the zoo where the brothers work. As a result of the accident, one of Alba's legs is amputated.

The grieving brothers become obsessed with decomposition as evolution's logical complement, and begin exploring, by means of time-lapse photography, the process of decay of life forms of increasing complexity (while they watch, obsessively, the David Attenborough TV series, "Life on Earth"). As their experiments require more animals, they become involved in a shady scheme for procuring animal corpses from the zoo, a process involving a prostitute / teller of erotic tales who is sexually obsessed with black-and-white animals....

This is of course not a realist film. Greenaway uses his symmetrical plot to explore relationships between biology and aesthetics, providing several alternative taxonomies for classifying life (Alba's plan is to have enough children to give each the name of a letter of the Greek alphabet; her daughter, Beta, creates her own collection of animals arranged by alphabetical order; the zoo's corpses are arranged by color: the zebra, the black-and-white striped angel fish, the Dalmatian...).

The twins attempt to deal with their loss by situating their dead wives within a biological process: the rotting creatures they film are on a kind of journey, as one twin says, "on their way back to where they came from: ooze." Ooze is the opposite of Zoo (as several mirror image shots of the zoo sign remind us), signifying the return of all creatures to an undifferentiated substance in which the anxieties of classification, distinction, beauty, desire, and of evolution itself, are removed. In this, the film offers an intriguing kind of reassurance. (Film Annotations)

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10 films for $65 with punch card
$10 general admission. $8 w/UCB student ID, $8 for senior citizens
$1 discount to anyone with a bike helmet
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