André Bazin’s Ontological Other: The Animal in Adventure Films Seung-hoon Jeong July 2009 Towards an Ecology of Cinema Cinema has long portrayed the lives of animals and their relationships with human beings. Seung-hoon Jeong examines André Bazin’s writings on such films as Crin blanc: le cheval sauvage and Umberto D to rethink the ontological and æsthetical concepts that define his cinematic vision.