A film by Melanie Jackson
International Fauna is commissioned by Relational and produced with Animate Projects and Picture This as part of the Anti-Bodies programme
Anti-Bodies is co-ordinated by Relational, with support from Arts Council England, and granted the London 2012 Inspire mark as part of the Cultural Olympiad
With thanks to Ed Atkins and Katerina Athanasopoulou

International Fauna is a blast, an anti-anthem, a parade of the animal symbols designated by nation states quick change through a background of digital colour fields. The representations are matched back with their animal call, for the duration of the image - a concrete composition of the absurd. The work delights in these extraordinary attempts to project national values onto an animal form, and in the forms they have taken.

The film is available to view online at animateprojects.org, Vimeo and can be downloaded from iTunes.