?O, Zoo!: The Making of a Fiction Film

?O, Zoo!: The Making of a Fiction Film is a 1986 experimental Canadian documentary film directed by Philip Hoffman.

Synopsis
Based in part around the making of Peter Greenaway's 1985 film A Zed & Two Noughts and constructed primarily from found footage made by his grandfather who onced worked as a newsreel cameraman, the film interrogates the distinction between fiction and documentary filmmaking through various meditations on the narrative assumptions and inventions that people attach to the neutrality of visual images; its most noted scene narrates the death of an elephant, without ever actually showing the animal.

Reception
The film premiered at the 1986 Festival of Festivals. It received a Genie Award nomination for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 8th Genie Awards.

It is also his most successful film to date.