
THE GHOSTS IN OUR MACHINE illuminates the lives of individual animals living within and rescued from the machine of our modern world. Through the heart and photographic lens of animal rights photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur, audiences become intimately familiar with a cast of non-human animals. From undercover investigations to joyful rescue missions, in North America and in Europe, each photograph and story is a window into global animal industries: Food, Fashion, Entertainm... (Full plot summary below)
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THE GHOSTS IN OUR MACHINE illuminates the lives of individual animals living within and rescued from the machine of our modern world. Through the heart and photographic lens of animal rights photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur, audiences become intimately familiar with a cast of non-human animals. From undercover investigations to joyful rescue missions, in North America and in Europe, each photograph and story is a window into global animal industries: Food, Fashion, Entertainment and Research. THE GHOSTS IN OUR MACHINE charts McArthur's efforts to bring wider attention to a topic that most of humankind strives hard to avoid.
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| Village VoiceErnest HardyA film whose sense of urgency and purpose is utterly engrossing. |
| NOW TorontoSusan G. ColeThe subtle approach may not convert all carnivores, and you might not buy the premise that animals deserve equal rights with humans. But this is a superb example of committed filmmaking. |
| Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyThe Ghosts in Our Machine, a heartfelt meditation on animal rights, comes at you as a whisper. It depends on the persuasive powers of creatures great and small — in their natural habitat or in cages — to argue that we stop using them for food, clothing, research and entertainment. |
| Bust MagazineEmily RemsThis sense of global shift-of an old world order being cleverly undermined by a newer, more compassionate one-permeates [Liz] Marshall's graphic, often upsetting meditation on how the animal kingdom is used and abused by humanity at large. |
| The New York TimesDavid DeWittThe Ghosts in Our Machine is a compelling movie, but its argument expands without deepening. |
| Slant MagazineWes GreeneJo-Anne McArthur's cause draws sharp comparisons with the never-mentioned PETA, a seemingly insignificant omission that discloses a lingering problem of willful insularity. |
| NewcityRay PrideCooly stylized, sometimes to the point of visual and aural delirium... Beauty and terror are quietly arrayed, sometimes commingling in the same images. It's an artful way to make a case about the sentience of other animals. |
| The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeLiz Marshall's Ghosts in Our Machine trades didacticism for first-person atmospherics. |
| RogerEbert.comScott Jordan HarrisMarshall's film does not only aim to document animal rights activism but also to propagate it, and in that it is less successful. This is a film overflowing with passion and compassion but often lacking the intellectual detachment necessary to distill conviction into a rigorous argument. |
| VarietyPeter DebrugeThis off-putting pic requires open minds and iron nerves. |