Victor Kossakovsky on Gunda, Respecting Nature, and Filmmaking Ethics | NYFF58

[@sultrylight7501]

Beautiful interview. What a rare, precious, deeply sensitive, compassionate soul Victor Kossakovsky is. If only there were more such people the world would be a better place.

[@baiji123]

So true!

[@wendyambler5335]

I agree with sultry light.The world would definitely be a better place if we had more people like this.

[@helensimpson2571]

I felt the exact same as a child, I loved animals. When I was three I had an argument with a fisherman by a lake. I wanted him to put the fish back into the water. I saw my Dad shoot rabbits on my Nanas farm and stopped speaking to him for a week.I have never understood why we are so cruel to them. His passion made me cry. I can’t wait to watch Gunda x

[@neoepicurean3772]

I spent the summer of a relatives farm when I was 9, and I became friend with a sheep named George. When I found out that George was killed for food I never ate lamb again, and hated eating all meat, but I thought I had to eat it. At 21 I learned that all the stuff about needing to eating meat and drink milk was all made up, so I stopped right away. That was over 20 years ago, and I have never once been tempted by meat since the day I gave up, even living in Norway where there were many, many times when I had to go without meals as there was no alternative. Now being vegan is so easy, there is no excuse apart from just refusing to see that you are paying for a sentient and emotionally sophisticated being to suffer and be killed just for your taste pleasure. I look forward to seeing Gunda.

[@babykitti537]

You are a wonderful person. God bless you. 🙏 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@azarikaKZ]

I cried with him in the end 😭 I must admit I feel hopeless sometimes in life looking at as he phrased "what the fuck are we doing", but he gives me more hope! God bless him

[@shelleyhainer1633]

The film is masterful, beautiful and heart breaking. No words!

[@jamesbooth9373]

This is more than a movie. I have no idea to explain it. It's a perfect piece of cinema, but it's way more than that. Thank you Victor Kossakovsky for this film. But most of all, thank you to all the stars of the film, many (ar all) of whom are no longer with us. Let us also honour them and pay respect to their loss.

[@vayasaberlo8]

How absolutely wonderful and amazing that people like this exist; an example to human-unkind. . .

[@mellowboogie]

This man gives me hope. Hope I needed.

[@brianwebberable]

What a wonderful person. This interview is so sensitive, it brought tears to my eyes.

[@Loke905]

Can`t wait to watch it. Peace from Norway

[@mellowboogie]

19:25, how I break down regularly thinking about the meat industry.

[@Catherine-2008]

What a beautiful compassionate soul!

[@lizbethtovar4083]

Victor Kossakovsky you are such a wonderful person, you are so sensitive human that is impossible dont cry with your beatiful message. I feel exaclty the same as you and you give me hope. I die for watch this film.

[@TiffinboxTV]

This interview wins the day. Thank you Victor Kossakovsky and Rachel Rosen for this interview. I'll be watching this film and asking my friends to do the same.

[@tikvahboy]

OK, I LOVE this man.

[@yuliak.4723]

What an amazing human being. Thank God these people exist! 🙏❤

[@rosiecoletta5031]

You can judge a nation by how it treats it animals

[@narekkhachatryan8086]

Victor, you're an awesome human being.

[@nealwailing3870]

This man is a genius!

[@BhaarathRamesh]

This man is real.

[@sandeepshrestha6309]

Thank you.

[@FlavioDeFeo]

A bit harsh 😂 but many of the things he says actually ring true. Thank you for this interview.

[@nealwailing3870]

The truth around our appalling treatment of animals is harsh--but not as harsh as the holocaust we are subjecting them to....

[@SantiHeve]

danke!!!

[@neoepicurean3772]

@8:51 that's a carnivore's 'yeah' if ever I heard one.

[@nealwailing3870]

All non-vegans: PPPLLLLEEEEEAAAASSSSEEEEEE process this message--go straight, go vegan!!!!!!

[@solarnaut]

" IT ' S C O M P L I C A T E D !!! " B-) Great to hear the director and it sounds like a great movie ! In "My Octopus Teacher," they capture a scene of this solitary octopus "playing" with a school of fish . . . if fish had feelings, could that have been experienced as cruel or torturous ? Certainly other warring primates demonstrate that humans have no monopoly on cruelty or selfishness. Last I'd heard, which was a couple of years ago, they were growing a pretty fine "meat ball" in a petri dish, but hadn't prefectied the texture of a steak . . . yet. Presumably the world would be a better place with a little more empathy for the conscious well being of our fellow travelers (humans; mammals; birds; snakes?; spiders? . . . ) . . . and yet there will always be decisions that come down to the "economics" . . . having a mother sow choose to "sacrifice" (or was it a "mercy killing?) one of her piglets ("for the greater good?") sounds like one of those many "sophie's choices" that life dumps into our laps at times. In many cases, there may be no "right" answer . . . but often, perhaps "less worse" choices ?

[@jakehammer557]

Amen.

[@sherman2828]

Beginning at 14:40, Kossakovsky brings up some important points, which are critical to thinking through the issues. First, the infallible authority of the Bible as God's Word, and hence the trustworthiness of its message about the meaning of things. Second, that those who have souls have a unique dignity of both body and soul which is not to be violated. Third, that if we believe in God we will acknowledge that we are under moral obligation, and that if we do not believe in God we will at the least be constrained by a consideration of self interest which we might extend to a concern for the rest of our own species. What could also be said to Kossakovsky that might be helpful as he thinks about these issues is, first, that the rational Creator has placed a rational design in the creation. Second, that the explanation as to why Kossakovsky creates and designs interesting films is because God has bestowed on him the dignity of someone made as the image and likeness of God. Third, that with this unique dignity, he has a moral obligation to show kindness in his care of the rest of the creation (e.g., Proverbs 12:10 and Exodus 20:10), an obligation which arises from the responsibility to reflect the just and merciful character of the Creator in whose image and likeness he is made, and thus an obligation surpassing calculations of self interest or the interests of his own species. The irony of Kossakovsky's reference to Christmas parties is that he glances past the solution to all the issues in which he is interested, because the incarnation of God would not have been possible if God had not already made human beings his own image and likeness.

[@kristavaleriehiddema2471]

The interviewer is awful. She had a script and just stuck to it. No creativity. No adaptation. HE WAS AMAZING.

[@rosiegibson3692]

I disagree. I think she was pitch perfect. She gave him emotional space. He was thankful for the questions

[@davidsummers4820]

About half way through, when sharing how many animals humans slaughter a year, he makes the point that if we allow ourselves to kill animals, we more easily permit ourselves to kill humans. He implies killing is wrong, always. However, earlier in the interview, he shares how Gunda had to kill one of her young, as she knew it would not survive. I would love to know how he explains this inconsistency.

[@tobbs5410]

Because most of the time, we don't base out morality around what other animals do. It's funny how we only ever do that when justifying killing animals for our palate pleasure.

[@megamoviez]

Well that was bleak as hell. I think I have become vegetarian now.

[@FlavioDeFeo]

Mega MovieZ 😂

[@titicatfollies6615]

Bleak because it's contrary to what we do. But I'm afraid he's right.

[@baiji123]

Wonderful Mega! You got it!

[@randyshields9800]

Go vegan. The animals raised for milk and eggs are exploited longer and harder than the ones exploited for just their flesh and, ultimately, all of them experience the terror and brutality of the slaughterhouse.

[@titicatfollies6615]

I so wish I could understand his words. You might consider subtitles--his accent is so thick.

[@anilkapahi8788]

click below the screen where it says cc

[@titicatfollies6615]

@@anilkapahi8788 - Ohh. THank you!

[@nealwailing3870]

A bit awkward for the interviewer/killer/torturer

[@robford3211]

We don’t respect ourselves deeply so how can we respect other creatures. We make war because some of think we are more important then others . It’s a shit show

[@nealwailing3870]

Like me, this man has vystopia--she don't...

[@solarnaut]

Ok, you made me look B-) " Vystopia : " the anguish of being vegan in a non-vegan world. "

[@danab172]

Pigs as friends are okay to kill. Dogs as friends are not okay to kill.

[@tobbs5410]

Why? I'd love to hear your dipshit justification for this.

[@joeha7384]

The curious human hypocrisy