Chicago – It’s difficult to comment upon a documentary like “The Ghosts in Our Machine,” as it advocates an important issue regarding our very nature – the relationship we have with our food and the animals that provide that food. However, the structure of the film and the centerpiece photographer profile obscures the point of view.
Rating: 3.0/5.0
That photographer is Jo-Anne McArthur, whose life’s work is capturing the images of animals – used for food and fur – in the often harsh environments of their developmental captivity. This is difficult stuff, especially if you have a relationship with an animal or just love them overall. It may change your attitude toward meat eating in any form, or it may at least provide some perspective on his ongoing “elephant in the room” – that of the inherent torture of food and fur animals before they are inevitably slaughtered. Director Liz Marshall has rendered an almost meditative film,...
Rating: 3.0/5.0
That photographer is Jo-Anne McArthur, whose life’s work is capturing the images of animals – used for food and fur – in the often harsh environments of their developmental captivity. This is difficult stuff, especially if you have a relationship with an animal or just love them overall. It may change your attitude toward meat eating in any form, or it may at least provide some perspective on his ongoing “elephant in the room” – that of the inherent torture of food and fur animals before they are inevitably slaughtered. Director Liz Marshall has rendered an almost meditative film,...
- 12/6/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
In her work as an animal rights activist, photographer Jo-Anne McArthur tries to get everyday people to grapple with the moral, ethical, and spiritual issues that underlay our relationships to animals. "I feel like I'm a war photographer," she says early in the documentary The Ghosts in Our Machine. "And I'm photographing changes in history in terms of animal rights and where they're going."
Director Liz Marshall's camera trails McArthur everywhere, from meetings with a potential book editor to clandestine night shoots at factory farms, slaughterhouses, and research labs, immersing the viewer in the struggles of her heroine — saving animals, building her career in order to gain currency that can then be used to shine a light on the issue, trying to protect her own ...
Director Liz Marshall's camera trails McArthur everywhere, from meetings with a potential book editor to clandestine night shoots at factory farms, slaughterhouses, and research labs, immersing the viewer in the struggles of her heroine — saving animals, building her career in order to gain currency that can then be used to shine a light on the issue, trying to protect her own ...
- 11/6/2013
- Village Voice
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