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Death of a Stag (S)

Original title: Une chasse à courre (La mort du cerf)
Year: 1951
Running time: 13 min.
Country: France
Director: Dimitri Kirsanoff
Cast: Documentary
Music: Maurice Thiriet
Cinematography: Emile Houdeyer (B&W)
Producer: Films Kirsanoff
Genre: Documentary | Experimental Cinema. Hunting. Short Film
Synopsis: Russian emigré Dimitri Kirsanoff’s alternative titled La mort du cerf and Une chasse à courre (A Hunt), from France, is a post-Second World War study of a traditional hunt. The pursuit of a stag finds a cross-cutting parallel in the felling of a tree in the forest. Both activities represent an environmental assault; on one level, they are of course unrelated, separate, distinct, but on another level they acquire a dreamy causality: the elimination of the tree shrinks the stag’s habitat, dismantling a part of its protection and helping to clear the path of its hunters’ sight in pursuit of it. This is a brilliant 12-minute black-and-white film.

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Death of a Stag (S)

1951

Dimitri Kirsanoff