The world premiere of ‘Do Donkeys Act?‘ takes place this month at CPH:DOX, the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival.

The filmmakers, David Redmon and Ashley Sabin have been nominated for a DOX:AWARD, the international competition for the best and brightest in contemporary filmmaking.
‘Do Donkeys Act?’ attempts to overcome man’s egocentric way of seeing the world and our fellow creatures. The actor Willem Defoe’s voice accompanies the long poem, which makes up the film’s philosophical thought experiment. Is it possible to reach beyond the limits of language and arrive at a true recognition of our relationship with other species? And does a donkey ever stop staging its own donkeyness when faced with a camera?

CPH-DOX is the third largest documentary film festival in the world. Each year the festival fills Copenhagen’s cinemas with a selection of more than 200 films from around the world.

Dr David Redmon, a Lecturer in Criminology within the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, uses media to depict the experiential life of animals, objects, places, and people within haptic, somatic, and physically tactile modes of expression.