Animal Tragic
FILM

Tim Macmillan
AnimateTV 2003
2003
Duration: 6'28"
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.
Duration
6'28"
24.1MB
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.
