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Before Law
If From Every Tongue It Drips
Dolphins, Ships and Other Vessels
Bugs and Beasts Before the Law
The Stammering Alphabet
Special Works School
Video Home System
The People v. The Cock of Basel
The Wind Sleeps Standing Up
Empire Symbol or a Man and His Mule
Sashay Away
Silent Citizen
Where The Trees Stood in Water

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Border Sounds
An Objective Odyssey
Citizen Kenney: A Love Letter in 3 Parts
In Queer Corners
Mechanized Labour
Oxidize
The Queen’s Punishment
Throwback

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Bugs and Beasts Before the Law





Bugs & Beasts before the Law is an experimental film that explores the medieval practice of putting animals on trial. This history of colonial law-making forged political and sometimes profane relationships between humans and animals. Bambitchell's new essayistic work reimagines common perceptions of legal history and, in doing so, produces a world where past and present, fiction and non-fiction, human and animal fuse.
33 min, Video Installation.
Made in collaboration with Bambitchell & Richy Carey.
Canada-Germany-Scotland.
2019






Installation views, Mercer Union, 2019. Photos by  Toni Hafkenscheid.


CREDITS


Directors: Sharlene Bamboat & Alexis Mitchell
Sound Design & Music Composition: Richy Carey
Camera: Iris Ng
Editor: Alexis Mitchell
Voice: Sukaina Kubba
Production Manager: Paula Kohlmann

CO-PRODUCED


By Mercer Union and The Henry Art Gallery with production support from Akademie Schloss Solitude, MacDowell Colony, The Darling Foundry and Canada Council for the Arts.






Poster Design: Sameer Farooq.
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