an·i·mal |  ˈa-nə-məl ¹

1. any of a kingdom (Animalia) of living things including many-celled organisms and many of the single-celled ones (such as protozoans) that typically differ from plants in having cells without cellulose walls, in lacking chlorophyll and the capacity for photosynthesis, in requiring more complex food materials (such as proteins), in being organized to a greater degree of complexity, and in having the capacity for spontaneous movement and rapid motor responses to stimulation
   
2. one of the lower animals as distinguished from human beings
   
3. a human being considered chiefly as physical or nonrational

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Animals

What to say about them? They’re amazing. We’re animals too, no?

"What are the transformative processes that enable empathy, engagement, thinking-with, across difference that divide the human and more-than-human worlds. In part the appeal for attentiveness is for activating cinematic means by which we might notice aspects of animal doing that assumptions of human superiority have blinkered us from noticing."²

"When I play with my cat, how do I know that she is not passing time with me rather than I with her?" - Montaigne

2. Stern, Lesley. “‘Once I’ve Devoured Your Soul We Are Neither Human nor Animal’: The Cinema as an Animist Universe,” 2016, 27.