Walden: Diaries, Notes and Sketches (excerpt). Jonas Mekas, 1964-1969.
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Edition screened: Included on Criterion Blu-ray #1164 The Velvet Underground, released 2022. No dialogue track. Runtime of this excerpt approximately 8 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film.
Violence in a Women’s Prison (Violenza in un carcere femminile). Bruno Mattei, 1982.
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Edition screened: Included in Severin Blu-ray box set The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle, released 2023. English language with original Italian as an option. Runtime approximately 98 minutes.
Summary: Depiction of killing a cockroach.
Details:
1) Around the 35 minute mark, Emmanuelle pushes at some black rats with her feet. The rats aren’t kicked or otherwise hurt.
2) Earlier in the film we see an inmate talking nicely to a cockroach that she keeps in a small cage made of toothpicks. At 1:02:50 the cage is smashed underfoot, presumably with the cockroach inside although we see no bug gore.
Venus in Furs. Piero Heliczer, 1965.
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Edition screened: Included on Criterion Blu-ray #1164 The Velvet Underground, released 2022. No dialogue track. Runtime approximately 22 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film.
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol. Jonas Mekas, 1965.
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Edition screened: Included on Criterion Blu-ray #1164 The Velvet Underground, released 2022. No dialogue track. Runtime approximately 12 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film.