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Un animal, des animaux (Nicolas Philibert, France, 1996)
Bestiaire (Denis Côté, Canada, 2012)
La Jetée (Chris Marker, France, 1962)
Nénette (Nicolas Philibert, France, 2010)
La ville Louvre (Nicolas Philibert, France, 1990)
Les Statues meurent aussi (Chris Marker and Alain Resnais, France, 1953)
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McMahon, L. (2016). Dead Funny: Laughter, Life and Death in Philibert’s Nénette and Un animal, des animaux . In: Lawrence, M., Lury, K. (eds) The Zoo and Screen Media. Screening Spaces. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53561-0_12
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