24th New York Queer Experimental Film Festival
Housepets
Melanie Raydo
2011, USA, video & faux fur, color, sound, 35 min. (loop)

To be human is to be superior to animal, or is it? The videos, shown on loop within this installation, all seek to interrogate the line we draw between one and the other, the animal within us and the one we put on to change our experience of the world outside. From the reification of an oft-maligned subculture to spiritual meditations on new beginnings, Housepets, a cavern with all sides covered in fur, seeks to cradle, to envelop, to create a space of comfort safe from the harsh weather outside.

Talking Beast
Joseph Keckler
2011, USA, video, color, sound, 4 min.

A floppy-eared dog takes control around holiday time, cruising around town with his animal pals and picking up more bio-hybrid pals for an X-mas party his master won't soon forget.

Zoone
Michael Cros
2009, France, video, color, sound, 2 min.

Human zoo... with agitated species in captivity... under surveillance...

(Hum)Animals
Coral Short
2011, Germany, video, color, sound, 4 min.

An experimental documentary of a furries convention.

Animals
Ned Stressen-Reuter & Stephen Winter
2011, USA, color, video, sound, 17 min.

Animals lost in their native habitat turn on each other in a hopeless contest for survival. Based on the 2008 action media performance SOS by Big Art Group, Animals investigates the nature of sacrifice within a supersaturated, hyper-acquisitive society.

Osmosis of the Unicorn
Isabell Spengler
2009, Germany, video, color, sound, 12 min.

In the birch grove some gorgeously hairy girls are bonding excessively with their inner and outer unicorns. Commissioned by the Arsenal Institute for the festival LIVE FILM! JACK SMITH! Five Flaming Days in a Rented World.