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Inside the Panopticon zoo it is dark and silent. As the camera creeps around the zoo we see humans, frozen still in cages. In contrast to the entrapment of the humanoids, a part-human, part-rodent creature is draped sleepily over the shaft of a centrally placed telescope. A sudden earthquake-like jolt rocks the entire zoo just as a strange creaking noise is heard and a shaft of light emerges and spreads over the zoo (SBF1-8).
The human-rodent dictator opens his eyes. The key-dial in his back begins to move around slowly. Looking around his observation tower, his eyes come to rest on the on/off switch located on a central control panel. He switches it on, bringing the zoo to life (SBF9-14).
Immediately and simultaneously; light-bulbs illuminate the cages, bolts lock the humans in as they come to life, pacing in their cages. Clock-like devices spring into mechanized action and a carriage starts to move around the railway track, pausing at each cage to deliver small chunks of raw meat to its prisoners. Now a living entity, everything inside the zoo moves in perfect time to the rhythmic sound of grinding cogs (SBF15-22).
The dictator focuses his telescope and follows the carriage to the next cage. The carriage stops, allowing a chunk of meat to propel itself into the cage and wriggle across the floor with the manner of a human tempting it's own fate. Two humans tear the meat into pieces and devour it. Laughing with satisfaction, the dictator follows the carriage to the next cage and observes the feeding session proceed like clockwork (SBF23-28).
Meat rolls across the floor of the woman's cage, coming to rest at her feet. The dictator becomes impatient as he waits for her to react. As though following some kind of magical command from the dictator, the meat rolls insistently on to the woman's foot. She kicks the meat angrily from her foot, out of the cage and onto the ground below (SBF29-33)
Refocusing his telescope, the dictator takes a closer look at the woman as she stares defiantly in his direction. Pulling away from the telescope, he scratches his head and records her behavior on his clipboard. He searches through the pages of a huge book, running his clawed finger over a diagram of a human brain. Pressing a button on his control panel, he watches through his telescope as the injured chunk of meat morphs into a rat, climbs into the cage and bites the woman's foot in retaliation (SBF34-47).
The woman kicks the rat off, sending it sliding along the floor until it slams into the side of the cage. The rat jumps back angrily, biting her repeatedly. The woman retreats to a corner of her cage as the rat scurries away (SBF47-54).
The dictator moves his telescopic view from the feisty woman to humans in other cages, who are pacing restlessly back and forward. Satisfied that at least their behavior is under control, he quickly pans his telescope back to see that the woman is standing defiantly looking straight at him. Furious and disarmed by this returned gaze, he walks toward the window and stares out at her. The instant their eyes meet for the first time, the dictator is weakened by the intensity of this un-mediated returned gaze, and retreats quickly out of sight (SBF55-71).
Empowered by staring out her controller, the woman uses her new-found strength to shake the padlock and bars of her cage rebelliously. Suddenly a missile is propelled from the tower, landing as a small steel ball in her cage. She rolls the ball over curiously with her toes, causing the missile to recoil with fright. The ball unravels into a tangled mess of steel and then morphs into a strange version of wind-instrument. The woman raises the instrument to her mouth and the force of her breath brings about a loud evocative sound that lingers, causing all the caged humans to stop and listen. The zoo is frozen momentarily by stillness and silence (SBF72-81).
Furious at the shift of power in the zoo, the dictator aggressively refocuses his telescope, hoping it will return his power. He watches as the woman raises the instrument to her mouth and blows another magical sound, this time inciting the humans into a frenzy of shaking cages, fighting and screaming. Even the raw meat is incited to jumping from the carriages and scrambling free. The rhythmic hum of clockwork mechanisms turns into arrhythmic, discordant sounds as the dysfunctional central machine breaks apart. Satisfied with the chaos she has instigated, the woman puts the instrument down at her feet (SBF82-90).
Panicking, the dictator swings his telescope round from cage to cage until it is spinning around out of control. Unable to duck in time, the dictator is knocked off his feet by the maniacal telescope. Landing with a thud, the dictator lies unconscious as the sounds of chaos appear to be sucked into a vacuum. Footsteps break the silence, coming closer and louder. They stop. The dictator opens his eyes and stares straight above him with widening eyes. An extremely large eye fills the frame as it looks down at the dictator through a magnifying glass. In response to this magnified gaze from above, the dictator's face begins to crack and his body starts to shake uncontrollably. Turning onto his hands and knees he crawls weakly toward the control panel. Realising his death is imminent, he reaches his rodent hand up to the panel and switches off the life-giving switch of the zoo (SBF91-99).
The cage lights go out and darkness is accompanied by silence. The silence is broken by the sound of unlocking padlocks, followed by little footsteps running inside the zoo. The woman runs away from her cage toward the tower as her cage door shuts behind her. As the dictator lies defeated on the floor of his observation tower, the woman climbs to the ladder leading to the turret. Just as she reaches the top, her eyes look upwards as a large shadow descends over her. From her point of view, we see a large box-lid being lowered toward her by human hands of giant proportions. A thud is heard as the lid comes down on the box transforming the dark shadows into blackness. The sound of a switch can be heard and we see the woman's hand descending the 'on' switch inside the observation tower. (SBF100-106).
With the images and sounds of the newly enlivened zoo enclosed in the box, we are left in blackness with the atmospheric hum of a scientific laboratory. Fading up from blackness to this external reality, a scientist's hand pushes the box into a shelf of other boxes containing scientific experiments (SBF107-108).
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The human-rodent dictator opens his eyes. The key-dial in his back begins to move around slowly. Looking around his observation tower, his eyes come to rest on the on/off switch located on a central control panel. He switches it on, bringing the zoo to life (SBF9-14).
Immediately and simultaneously; light-bulbs illuminate the cages, bolts lock the humans in as they come to life, pacing in their cages. Clock-like devices spring into mechanized action and a carriage starts to move around the railway track, pausing at each cage to deliver small chunks of raw meat to its prisoners. Now a living entity, everything inside the zoo moves in perfect time to the rhythmic sound of grinding cogs (SBF15-22).
The dictator focuses his telescope and follows the carriage to the next cage. The carriage stops, allowing a chunk of meat to propel itself into the cage and wriggle across the floor with the manner of a human tempting it's own fate. Two humans tear the meat into pieces and devour it. Laughing with satisfaction, the dictator follows the carriage to the next cage and observes the feeding session proceed like clockwork (SBF23-28).
Meat rolls across the floor of the woman's cage, coming to rest at her feet. The dictator becomes impatient as he waits for her to react. As though following some kind of magical command from the dictator, the meat rolls insistently on to the woman's foot. She kicks the meat angrily from her foot, out of the cage and onto the ground below (SBF29-33)
Refocusing his telescope, the dictator takes a closer look at the woman as she stares defiantly in his direction. Pulling away from the telescope, he scratches his head and records her behavior on his clipboard. He searches through the pages of a huge book, running his clawed finger over a diagram of a human brain. Pressing a button on his control panel, he watches through his telescope as the injured chunk of meat morphs into a rat, climbs into the cage and bites the woman's foot in retaliation (SBF34-47).
The woman kicks the rat off, sending it sliding along the floor until it slams into the side of the cage. The rat jumps back angrily, biting her repeatedly. The woman retreats to a corner of her cage as the rat scurries away (SBF47-54).
The dictator moves his telescopic view from the feisty woman to humans in other cages, who are pacing restlessly back and forward. Satisfied that at least their behavior is under control, he quickly pans his telescope back to see that the woman is standing defiantly looking straight at him. Furious and disarmed by this returned gaze, he walks toward the window and stares out at her. The instant their eyes meet for the first time, the dictator is weakened by the intensity of this un-mediated returned gaze, and retreats quickly out of sight (SBF55-71).
Empowered by staring out her controller, the woman uses her new-found strength to shake the padlock and bars of her cage rebelliously. Suddenly a missile is propelled from the tower, landing as a small steel ball in her cage. She rolls the ball over curiously with her toes, causing the missile to recoil with fright. The ball unravels into a tangled mess of steel and then morphs into a strange version of wind-instrument. The woman raises the instrument to her mouth and the force of her breath brings about a loud evocative sound that lingers, causing all the caged humans to stop and listen. The zoo is frozen momentarily by stillness and silence (SBF72-81).
Furious at the shift of power in the zoo, the dictator aggressively refocuses his telescope, hoping it will return his power. He watches as the woman raises the instrument to her mouth and blows another magical sound, this time inciting the humans into a frenzy of shaking cages, fighting and screaming. Even the raw meat is incited to jumping from the carriages and scrambling free. The rhythmic hum of clockwork mechanisms turns into arrhythmic, discordant sounds as the dysfunctional central machine breaks apart. Satisfied with the chaos she has instigated, the woman puts the instrument down at her feet (SBF82-90).
Panicking, the dictator swings his telescope round from cage to cage until it is spinning around out of control. Unable to duck in time, the dictator is knocked off his feet by the maniacal telescope. Landing with a thud, the dictator lies unconscious as the sounds of chaos appear to be sucked into a vacuum. Footsteps break the silence, coming closer and louder. They stop. The dictator opens his eyes and stares straight above him with widening eyes. An extremely large eye fills the frame as it looks down at the dictator through a magnifying glass. In response to this magnified gaze from above, the dictator's face begins to crack and his body starts to shake uncontrollably. Turning onto his hands and knees he crawls weakly toward the control panel. Realising his death is imminent, he reaches his rodent hand up to the panel and switches off the life-giving switch of the zoo (SBF91-99).
The cage lights go out and darkness is accompanied by silence. The silence is broken by the sound of unlocking padlocks, followed by little footsteps running inside the zoo. The woman runs away from her cage toward the tower as her cage door shuts behind her. As the dictator lies defeated on the floor of his observation tower, the woman climbs to the ladder leading to the turret. Just as she reaches the top, her eyes look upwards as a large shadow descends over her. From her point of view, we see a large box-lid being lowered toward her by human hands of giant proportions. A thud is heard as the lid comes down on the box transforming the dark shadows into blackness. The sound of a switch can be heard and we see the woman's hand descending the 'on' switch inside the observation tower. (SBF100-106).
With the images and sounds of the newly enlivened zoo enclosed in the box, we are left in blackness with the atmospheric hum of a scientific laboratory. Fading up from blackness to this external reality, a scientist's hand pushes the box into a shelf of other boxes containing scientific experiments (SBF107-108).
