Wildlife Documentaries

The project focuses on the representation of human-animal encounters in animal documentaries with particular attention to repercussions of classical (i.e. Aristotelian) drama. In animal documentaries, the man-animal divide is aesthetically reframed in the sense that constructed animal biographies, animal stories and encounters between humans and animals often follow a decidedly anthropological perspective, contrary to their alleged amibition and form the basis of commercial success.