CALL OF THE WILD
2016 · 4m · Germany
Directed by NEOZOON
Genres: documentary, experimental
Tones: absurdist, provocative, surreal
NEOZOON's found-footage video collage assembled from YouTube clips of people expressing their 'inner animals' for the camera — primal screams, feline cosplay, extreme metal growling — examining uncivilized self-expression as a social and political phenomenon.
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The scouts
NEOZOON again, this time looking at humans doing animal impressions for YouTube. The spectrum from 'cute cat girl' to 'death metal growl' is apparently unified by a single animal impulse. They have made this rigorous. It is both a nature documentary and an indictment.
NEOZOON cataloging YouTube performances of inner-animal expression — guttural screams, feline cosplay, metal growling — with their deadpan analytical rigor. Nature-doc-meets-feminist-video-art-meets-internet-archaeology is their reliable lane.
NEOZOON cataloging YouTube clips of people performing their inner animals — primal screams, feline cosplay, metal growls — with deadpan analytical rigor. The remix-as-internet-archaeology mode is their specialty and four minutes is the right length.