Retrospective 2015

A Zed & Two Noughts

Peter Greenaway
GBR, NL 1985
115 min
V'15

Oswald and Oliver are twins and zoologists, who examine animals at a ZOO (A Zed and two Noughts). When their wives die in a freak caraccident with a white swan they start studying the evolution of death. With their camera the twins observe the decomposition of animals like fish, a crocodile, a dog and a zebra. Obviously it is the mystery of life and death they want to reveal, but in the end their examinations produce nothing but mathematical formulas and physical structures. At the sametime the two doctors fall in love with the only survivor of the crash, Alba.

Supporting film: TIERE OHNE FEIND UND FURCHT

Credits
  • Andréa Ferréol - Alba Bewick
  • Brian Deacon - Oswald Deuce
  • Eric Deacon - Oliver Deuce
  • Frances Barber - Venus De Milo
  • Peter Greenaway
  • Sacha Vierny
  • Garth Marshall
  • John Wilson
  • Michael Nyman
  • Ben van Os
  • Jan Roelfs
  • Patricia Lim
BFI, Artificial Eye, Film Four Int., VPRO
35 mm
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