On the hunt - who owns nature?
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | On the hunt - who owns nature? |
| Country of production | Germany , Canada |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 6 JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alice Agneskirchner |
| script | Alice Agneskirchner |
| production | Leopold Hoesch |
| music | Gert Wilden junior |
| camera |
Johannes Imdahl (BVK), Owen Prümm (SASC) |
| cut | André Hammesfahr (FSO) |
On the hunt - who owns nature? is a feature film documentary by the German director Alice Agneskirchner from 2017 .
content
The film explores the question of who nature belongs to in Germany. Who owns the forest , who owns the wild animals that live in it, and what rights they have. And what role the hunt plays in our time and what tasks hunters still have. The film accompanies hunters , forest officials , a wildlife biologist , wolf officers and farmers in their daily work and thereby captures their definition of nature. Elaborately rotated animal and landscape images complement these positions and depict the beauty of German nature and the wild animals in Germany. A focus here is particularly on the chamois , as well as wolves and deer .
There is a short contribution to the film with six hunters from the Algonquin tribe in Canada.
background
The film is a Broadview TV production in cooperation with ZDF and Arte , funded by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW , the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern , the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media and the German Film Funding Fund .
Reviews
Wolfgang Kornder, 1st chairman of the Bavarian Ecological Hunting Association , criticized the film in a press release as "one-sided" and full of "hypocrisy." He assumed one-sidedly interesting game and a certain type of hunt and neglected the common good and production function of the forest . The film represents the partial interests of a hunt oriented towards hunting trophies and puts the forest behind.
The wildlife biologist Ulrich Wotschikowsky up in a Reszension of the movie "false statements" within the competence of the authorities find and criticized statements on the current hoofed holdings in Bavaria as a miscalculation, such as the one allegedly threatened the existence Bavarian chamois, notably by Christine Miller. The film misses its self-imposed claim to be a documentary. Wotschikowsky: “Instead of objective facts, he conveys one-sided, also factually clearly wrong messages.” Director Alice Agneskichner “does not have the necessary critical distance from her material” and was “badly advised” during the production of the film.
There is also massive criticism from a nature conservation perspective. Claus Obermeier, chairman of the Gregor Louisoder Umweltstiftung, writes : “(...) unfortunately he leads the central questions of the announcement (Who does nature belong to? The animals? The people? Or should it simply be left to itself? And does it even exist still, untouched nature?) and in some cases naively hides almost everything that has been researched, written and progressed over the past 100 years. "
The reception in the press, however, was positive.
“First there is simply the huge pull of the images - nature shots that derive their strength from the fact that they are both wild and archaic and yet strangely familiar. (...) She has left all cheap clichés and preconceived notions behind. Your documentary ON THE HUNT is a great stroke of luck - also because of its magically beautiful pictures, but above all because it dares to give extremely complex answers (...). For a long time, it has not been so impressively demonstrated how seriously human has intervened in nature and what responsibility this entails. (...) Your film is not a dull plea for the hunt, but an invitation to look at it in a more differentiated way. "
“Agneskirchner's film is a good basis for reading such experience reports, precisely because it touches on many aspects and puts subjective and objective truths side by side on an equal footing. (...) The sobriety of the content and the pictorial language result in an astonishingly coherent friction and allow the mysteriousness of the mist-shrouded mountain valleys to spill over into the statements and rituals of the hunters, without thereby imposing the irrational element as the 'real' essence of the hunt. The sparingly used off-text leaves room for completely different conclusions than possibly intended. "
“With impressive animal and landscape shots, director and author Alice Agneskircher goes on an exciting walk through the woods. It lets hunters, forest officials, farmers, wildlife biologists and animal rights activists have their say - with completely different views. And it focuses on the conflict between hunting and forest: the bitter dispute over the number of animals being shot. "
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The film was awarded the CIC Communication Prize 2018 by the International Council for the Conservation of Game and Hunting (CIC). At the Green Screen Nature Film Festival 2018 he was awarded for best post-production.
Web links
- On the hunt - who owns nature? in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official homepage for the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for On the Hunt - Who Owns Nature? Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Age rating for On the Hunt - Who Owns Nature? Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Wolfgang Kornder: On the hunt - who owns nature? Commentary on the film by Alice Agneskirchner. In: oejv-bayern.de. Archived from the original on August 26, 2019 ; accessed on August 26, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Ulrich Wotschikowsky: On the hunt - who owns nature? In: Wolfsite - Forum Isegrim. June 8, 2018, archived from the original on February 6, 2019 ; accessed on December 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Claus Obermeier: Film “On the hunt” - who really belongs to nature? In: Blog Bayern wild. June 1, 2018, archived from the original on August 26, 2019 ; accessed on December 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Tanja Rest: The beloved deer . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . No. 107 , May 11, 2018, ISSN 0174-4917 , p. 12 ( Online [accessed July 31, 2018]).
- ↑ Cosima Lutz: The atavism with the green point . In: world . May 9, 2018, ISSN 0173-8437 , p. 22 ( Online [accessed July 31, 2018]).
- ↑ Jörg Sigmund: Our forest . In: Augsburger Allgemeine . No. 103 , May 5, 2018, p. 3 ( Online [accessed July 31, 2018]).
- ↑ CIC Magazine 2018/01. International Council for Game Conservation and Hunting, accessed 11 September 2018 .