Abstract

How does film problematize the human-animal relationship? This article develops this question by analysing the film Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010). In this film, German filmmaker Werner Herzog (1942-) delves into one of the most fascinating discoveries of all time: the art of the Chauvet Cave (30.000 to 32.000 BP). The text proposes that, through the physical involvement of the viewing public, the focus on affect and the intertwining of reality and fiction, the documentary develops a field of intensities that allows us to glimpse a becoming animal through film.