The Animal Riot: Mandy McIntosh Ruby Dregs: Mandy McIntosh
Tolbooth Attic, 1pm
The text of the film is abridged from the original story 'TheAnimal Riot' by Nikolay Ivanovich Kostomarov. Sometimes cited as an influence on Orwellís Animal Farm, the story of the riot was written towards the end of the 18th century,before the Russian Revolution. It is a philosophical account of a great bid for freedom that fails.McIntoshís film is a process of reactivation as well as an exploration of aesthetics, symbols and the marks animals make. The backgrounds are drawn by primates, gorillas,chimpanzees and orang-utans, while the story is acted out by 3D puppets.The film is scored by Zeena Parkins in an expressionistic but hard edge staccato that she built in response to seeing how the animals moved. Zeena and Mandy spent a weekon a farm in Cornwall making field recordings which Zeena pushed into heightened lyrical shapes. The story of the failed revolution is lent great sombre dignity by the voice of Aidan Moffat.Ruby Dregs is an early animation created by McIntosh working with young people from Bannockburn primary school. This extremely challenging film examines the methods in which William Wallace was executed and the way that the young people grapple with this in the context of a cultural icon. It was commissioned as part of the Wallace 700 project run by the Tolbooth.
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