Tongue….Teeth….Flesh…..Fur…..There is a problem in the building…A vermin problem…And it needs fixing…..
Two neighbours, with conflicting views towards the foxes who visit their shared garden are at odds on how to handle their (perceived) nuisance visitors.

My final project, Beastly Places, is an abstract narrative animated short which contemplates in part the complex entanglings of human-animal relations in our shared spaces. It is a meditation on woman-nature interconnectedness and the call for individual critical thinking in reaction to the mob-like enthusiasm for eradicating perceived threats to established power structures.
It developed as a personal and original response to two seemingly unconnected subjects: firstly, an event that happened at my home – a shared residential building in East London, and secondly, from reading about the idea of Anima Mundi, or the World Soul. Anima Mundi is the belief that a connection exists between all living things on the planet, similar to the way in which we recognise the soul as connected to the human body. 
There is a modern ecofeminist perspective, that says our paternalistic/capitalistic society has led to a harmful split between nature and culture. This perspective focuses on intersectional questions, such as how the nature-culture split enables the oppression of female and nonhuman bodies, making critical connections between the exploitation of nature and the domination over women both caused by that paternalistic/capitalistic society. 

Debut Screening Royal College of Art 21 JUN 2017