New Haven
Human Animals Watch One Last Doc
by | Oct 11, 2024 4:02 pm
Posted to: Film
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Are these prairie dogs wondering what makes them prairie dogs?
Human standing room only at the Cannon.
Prairie dogs have a word for“human.” They talk about us in a language with nouns, adjectives, and variable dialects — even though, to most of us, their words sound like unintelligible squeaks.
I learned that delightful fact at the last-ever film screening by NHDocs, from a vegan advocacy film about what it means to be human in a world of other animals.
After 10 years of hosting local documentary film festivals, NHDocs held its final gatheringWednesday at the Cannon pub on Dwight Street, collaborating with the vegan festival Compassionfest to show animal rights activist Mark Devries’ movie Humans and Other Animals. The screening was followed by a Q‑and‑A with Devries himself.
