Native Animals (2019)
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.
Cast
Recommendations
Naqoyqatsi
I Am Heath Ledger
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
Being James Bond
My Mom Jayne
Above Majestic
The Mole: Undercover in North Korea
A Love Song for Latasha
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends
180° South
The Crystal Calls - Making The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
The Captains
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
Halloween: 25 Years of Terror
Love, Marilyn
Looking for Richard
Our Planet: Behind the Scenes
For the Love of Spock
Nothing Like a Dame