ROAD KILLZ c. 2007 Galileo Productions, LLC

ROAD KILLZ
c. 2007 Galileo Productions, LLC
Space Farms
Sussex, NJ

Warning: This video contains graphic content. Viewer discretion is advised.

In 1976 Frederick Wiseman produced the Direct Cinema documentary Meat, taking the viewer on a behind the scenes journey to meat slaughterhouses in Pennsylvania. For some people it was the first time they had witnessed the way in which their meat dinners were processed before arriving at their tables.

In Road Killz, I have presented the story of state worker John Snyder, an RKT (Road Kill Technician) during a typical day of cleaning up Sussex County, NJ's road kill deer carcasses from the sides of highways. He believes his work is important and a service to the community. John brings his days catch back to Space Farms Museum and Zoo where the fresh kills are processed and used for
feeding the zoo animals. All other unfresh deer are buried in land fills. Fred Space is 2nd generation owner/operator of Space Farms Museum and Zoo. He is personally involved in the skinning and processing of each fresh carcass that he feeds to his lions.

Road Killz is not intended to tell a story for shock value alone. It tells the story of
an unstaged typical day in both these mens lives. John does his job and takes a break for lunch mid day at a local restaurant. The juxtapositioning of Johns
mundane demeanor with the dead deer he has to pick up almost becomes comical through repetition in real time. I hope the audience begins to develop a sense of Gallo's humor by watching this especially those who have never witnessed what is considered very normal and matter of fact for my subjects. I want the viewer to see some of the humor my subjects have developed by doing
this job day in and day out. This is a lifestyle for them. Everything you see was not staged for the camera with exception of one cutaway of the truck leaving the site. No animal was mistreated that I witnessed. All fresh deer is skinned and fed to the animals upon completion.

I've attempted to make the viewer think about death through the eyes of state workers who witness and work with it every day. We've become sheltered from a natural process that happens to everyone. Road Killz are metaphors for a much greater human step in our lives that we must all come to face at some time. Road Killz will stimulate the viewers curiosity. We hide our eyes or turn are head but deep inside we want to see more because some of us have been sheltered from a very natural stage of life.

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• KILLZ
• SPACEFARMS
• DEAD
• DEER

[mbandjohn]

Space Farms makes great use out of road kill. Their big cats are well fed.

[nobodykh]

i went to space farms today but i didn't see 2 tigers i only saw 1 why is that does anyone know why?

[JokerRose]

most of it goes to mr.space... the guy who owns space farms i know because iknow him and i live a mile away from spacefarms..and alot of the road kill mr.space gets himself off the road