Pen up the Pigs— un film de Kelly Gallagher /

Dans ce film d’animation, le monde naturel et le monde social sont confrontés l’un à l’autre dans un violent flux cinétique travaillé image par image. Les animaux s’y affrontent, se dévorent, et sont mis en parallèle avec le monde humain sous le prisme d’un regard historique porté sur la violence de l’esclavage mise en relation avec l’incarcération de masse contemporaine. La nature célèbre la résistance militante en fleurissant la vie, en affirmant les gestes possibles d’une lutte contre l’exploitation.

Through cut-out animation, the natural world and human world confront each other through kinetic and violent motion, frame by frame. Animals clash, tearing each other apart, mirroring the human world where a historical look at the connections between the violence of slavery and modern day mass incarceration are explored. In moments of struggle, as people fight back against racism and their oppression, the natural world responds as animated cut-out flowers grow frantically, pollinated by the resistance of the oppressed, as gardens of new life are born. Nature celebrates militant resistance with flowering life, gesturing towards the life that is possible when those who are oppressed fight back against the violence of their exploitation.