De Poten van de Bizon (2024) with Maarten Peels - Screens 136

Today we’re joined by filmmaker Maarten Peels to talk about his 2024 short film De Poten van de Bizon (The Bison’s Legs), the story of two friends who go on a dream quest to make a cave painting. Maarten did extensive research in order to avoid the clichéd caveman tropes and make something we’ve never seen before: a plausible and scientifically accurate portrayal of Palaeolithic life. We are absolutely in love with this film, and highly recommend that you pause the episode and go watch it right now!

Links

• Watch The Bison’s Legs on Maarten’s Website
• Follow Maarten on Instagram
• Hear more from Maarten on the EXARC Podcast
• Experimental archaeologist Diederik Pomstra
• Marc Azéma: Animation in Palaeolithic art
• Chauvet bison painting
• Palaeolithic Thaumatrope
• Prehistoric Humans in Film and Television: 581 Dramas, Comedies and Documentaries, 1905–2004 by Michael Klossner (2006)
• The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and our Obsession with Human Origins by Stefanos Geroulanos (2024)

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