Samuel Fuller: White Dog
Georges Franju: Blood of the Beasts
Hollis Frampton: Summer Solstice
Peter Kubelka: Unsere Afrikareise
I second the Jim Trainor suggestion; many of his films, actually.
Stan Brakhage:
Nightcats
Cat's Cradle
Sirius Remembered
Mothlight
Pasht
The Animals of Eden and After
The Shores of Phos: A Fable
The Presence
The Domain of the Moment
The Loom
Tragoedia
Burial Path
Bird
The Cat of the Worm's Green Realm
The Earthsong of the Cricket
The Lion and the Zebra Make God's Raw Jewels
Max
(and doubtless some others that don't come to mind at the moment)
Personally, however, I think we should first of all value the nature
that our species has gone a long way towards destroying, and the animals
that are a part of it, for what they uniquely are, before we start
appropriating (or colonizing?) them as "an a kind of distancing tactic
that allows for reflection on inter-human behaviours," which seems to be
most of what humans do. Some of the Brakhage films on my list, while
always human-centric, do make a stab at trying to imagine animals as
genuinely other than us.
Fred Camper
Chicago
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