Animal Tragic


An unsettling take on the ‘natural history’ of our contemporary urban environment, recreating three reported incidents where humans and ‘friendly’ animals interact badly – a postman kills a dog, a dog attacks a child, a horse kills a cyclist.


Credits

Director Tim Macmillan


Synopsis

An unsettling take on the ‘natural history’ of our contemporary urban environment, recreating three reported incidents where humans and ‘friendly’ animals interact badly – a postman kills a dog, a dog attacks a child, a horse kills a cyclist.


Technical information

The film incorporates a major digital development of Tim’s own analogue time-slice technique. Simultaneous 35mm film and stills of a momentary event are transformed by experimental FloMo software into a spatial vector map, from which a virtual camera can float freely in space around the ‘suspended’ scene.