Authors

In Two Dogs and a Ball, the filmmaker seems to  be the author of the film. The ball, being an interest of the dogs in the film is obviously the controlling factor of the dogs. But the question is, what is the ball was not a natural interest of the dogs? Would the author of the film still be the filmmaker? I think that there can be many arguments that can be made for this film in terms of who the author is. Some may even be that the ball itself is the author of this film. I say its the filmmaker to to the ball inability to move by itself without an outside force acting on it. The ball moved because the filmmaker moved it. But I also give some authorship to the dogs due to their movements of following the ball and changing stances. The main author is the filmmaker because there would be no constant activity without the ball movements.