
Native Animals
A garish, queasy carousel of cartoonish creatures sneering at each other, funny and nasty at once, leaving a sour taste about belonging.
- Directed by
- Rachel Maclean
- Genres
- Documentary
- Overview
- A multi-character, 8-channel film sits in the centre of the exhibition. Each character, from a porcine union-jack doting politician to a phone-addicted white cat, stand in as an archetype in the UK’s political landscape as it considers its exit from the European Union. Set apart on independent monitors, these anthropomorphized incarnations menace one another through tacit acts of ridicule in a perpetually cycling theatre, falling between farcical and cruel. Maclean points us to the mechanisms of belonging and nativeness at play in the performance of national identity.
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- Directed by
- Rachel Maclean
- Genres
- Documentary










