Animal Antics

Animal Antics is an absurdist take on the effects of the Anthropocene from the perspective of a woman and her talking dog Whoopsie on a trip to the zoo The film is set a few years into the future when The Wild is no more its last animal remnants confined to safari parks and zoos As Sarah and Whoopsie do the rounds of the cages and pens the dog leaves a trail of increasingly offbeam offcolour comments revealing itself as both absurdly precocious and deeply prejudiced Whoopsies remarks reflect less on mans best friend than humankind itself our preoccupation with supremacy and dominance at the expense of the world in which we exist A hybrid of Desmond Morris Johnny Morris and Chris Morris Goddards film is a surreal blackcomic tour de force in which the anthropomorphic antics of mans best friend offer up a deathly accurate mirror of mankinds very worst traits