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Criminal Animals

1994 · 7 min

A short, unsettling archival montage that feels like a grim essay on power, cruelty and spectacle, watched with detached unease.

Genres
Documentary
Overview
In this filmic comment on Fascist ideology - which uses footage from the recently discovered archives of Luca Comerio - invisible hands push captive animals to fight among themselves.
How it feels
Dark, bleak, eerie and cynical. Slow-burning and demanding.
About
Power, violence, corruption, nature
Content
Mild violence and gore. No sexual content or swearing.
Note
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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
Places
None
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror5
Humour0
Realism6
Romance0
Tension6
Darkness8
Complexity7
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
documentary
Directed by
Angela Ricci Lucchi, Yervant Gianikian
Written by
Angela Ricci Lucchi, Yervant Gianikian
Runtime
7 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
No Language

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