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Native Animals

2019 · 5 min

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
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Tone
  • satiricalstrength 3 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • politics
  • identity
  • media
  • class
  • betrayal
Places
None
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • animated
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror3
Humour6
Realism3
Romance0
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity7
Emotional weight5

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Genres
documentary
Directed by
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Runtime
5 min
Country
United Kingdom
Languages
English

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