"My call is for empathy," says Victor Kossakovsky, the filmmaker behind the black-and-white documentary, which required him to film the daily lives of farm animals for several months. By Rebecca Ford ...

There have been lots of movies about pigs over the years, but rare is the movie that lets the pigs onscreen just be pigs. More often than not, the animals are anthropomorphized or metaphorized.

Gunda is a sow who is raising a dozen piglets on a Norwegian farm, taking the little ones, over a period of months, from the straw of her wooden pen to roll, tumble and run around amid the trees and ...

Viktor Kosakovskiy’s existentialist, meditative masterpiece Gunda reminds a great deal of the contemplative works of Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas. Using only diegetic sound and stark, expressive ...

“Gunda” opens with an image that may stay with you forever. There’s the wall of a barn, see, and in that wall there’s a doorway, and in that doorway there’s a pig. The pig, a big sow, lies on her side ...

The barnyard setting of “Gunda” could hardly be more familiar, but in Russian director Victor Kossakovsky’s documentary, a pigsty is rendered an almost alien landscape. Kossakovsky’s film is shot in ...

Experiential cinema in its purest form, GUNDA chronicles the unfiltered lives of a mother pig, a flock of chickens, and a herd of cows with masterful intimacy. Using stark, transcendent black and ...

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Director Viktor Kossakovsky made a movie for audiences to rethink their relationship to farm animals, and earned Joaquin Phoenix's support. No stranger to unique subject matter affecting the world at ...

Sep 9, 2020 - Experiential cinema in its purest form, GUNDA chronicles the unfiltered lives of a mother pig, a flock of chickens, and a herd of cows with masterful intimacy. Using stark, transcendent ...

Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. Jen Yamato and I reached 14 filmmakers for their memories of favorite moments at the ...