THINKFilm Acquires Horse Sex Film, Jerry Springer Eats His Own Heart Out

Well it looks like horse sex has FINALLY hit the mainstream. THINKFilm has acquired the worldwide rights to Director Robinson Devor’s contraversial documentary ‘Zoo’, after having only screened a few minutes of the film no less! For those of you who haven’t heard, the movie is a modern day love story/tragedy of sorts, not unlike Baz Luhrman’s colourful retelling of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliette. However, in this case Leonardo DiCaprio’s Romeo is a man named Kenneth Pinyan, and Claire Dane’s Juliette is an ARABIAN HORSE. That’s right. From the THINKFilms site: ‘the film tells the story of a seemingly average businessman whose secret sexual life led to his shocking death.’ This film is gonna hit huge with the 6-14 year old female demographic. They seriously love horses. I can only imagine how Pinyan’s family feels about this film. Luckily I don’t know them and can just enjoy this totally messed up story guilt free. The film has also been accepted at this years Sundance Film Festival. Here’s what Sundance programmer John Cooper had to say about Zoo:

Robinson Devor’s filmmaking is as smart as it is eloquent. To begin with, Zoo is neither graphic nor exploitive. Most of it takes the form of recreations, but from the point of view of the men “who met for years without disturbance in the shadows of Mt. Rainier,” as Devor puts it. The cinematic language invented for the film permits us to examine where we draw the line, how much perversity we can tolerate in others. In a broader sense, Zoo is really about thresholds. What can we stand to know, and, more importantly, what can we stand to accept?

It’s going to be interesting to see how Devor handles this story without turning it into one giant joke. Keep your eyes and ears open for this one, as I think it’s going to cause a stir at this year. And keep checking back with us here at The Documentary Blog for more news on Zoo. Afterall, you never know what sort of search engine results will appear when looking for info on this film. Just avoid the embarrasment and leave the dirty work to us.

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