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    Who’s watching who at the zoo?

    A day at the zoo. Animals making faces at humans, humans making faces at animals. Bert Haanstra’s warm and quirky film notes the strange similarities between visitors and exhibits, using lively cuts to show that we might not be too far removed from our animal cousins.

    Director: Bert Haanstra

    13 December 2013
    Photo of a giraffe seen through an arched doorway with brick and blue tiled walls in a zoo environment.

    videoAnimals and humans

    Are zoos and natural history museums born of a desire to understand, or to control?

    57 minutes

    Black and white photo of a man in a suit and bowler hat interacting with a black lamb standing on a table against a plain backdrop.

    videoEcology and environmental sciences

    Haunting photographs of farm animals reveal more than initially meets the eye

    8 minutes

    Group of children dressed in winter clothing, including hats and scarves, standing outside and looking forward with solemn expressions.

    videoAnimals and humans

    An unflinching look at a provocative public dissection of a ‘surplus’ zoo lion

    13 minutes

    A raccoon at night with glowing eyes, standing on grass; a cat with glowing eyes is in the background.

    videoFamily life

    ‘I think animals are the thing. Not people.’ Two brothers, and the wild company they keep

    9 minutes

    A man with a long beard wearing glasses holding a net against a backdrop of a grassy field and cloudy sky.

    videoAnimals and humans

    The wild tale of a young animal keeper, an angry tiger and a torn circle net

    10 minutes

    Abstract painting with black-and-white swirls and a splash of dark red on a textured background.

    videoNeurodiversity

    ‘A face is a hilly landscape.’ How a face-blind artist paints what she can’t recognise

    5 minutes

    Close-up of a chameleon’s green, textured scales and eye taken among plants.

    videoBiology

    Can a city cockroach cheat fate in this hallucinatory, eat-or-be-eaten jungle?

    7 minutes

    Painting of two brown bears lounging on a sofa in a black-and-white living room with large windows, plants, a side table and a cup.

    videoLove and friendship

    Can you find ‘home’ in another person? What it’s like to follow love across borders

    5 minutes

    Cartoon of a bald man in a nappy holding a baby bottle, surrounded by colourful machines and gears, under a large overhead light.

    videoThinkers and theories

    The Bing Bang, reincarnation and other theories of life from budding philosophers

    8 minutes