An animal, representing all animals, on trial for crimes including “being disgusting,” in a dream-like confrontation between being and the law. Reflecting on the animal/human distinction, nature and second nature, continuity and collapse, Penumbra depicts a dream-like confrontation between being and the law.

An animal, representing all animals, on trial for crimes including “being disgusting,” in a dream-like confrontation between being and the law. Reflecting on the animal/human distinction, nature and second nature, continuity and collapse, Penumbra depicts a dream-like confrontation between being and the law.

An animal, representing all animals, on trial for crimes including “being disgusting,” in a dream-like confrontation between being and the law. Reflecting on the animal/human distinction, nature and second nature, continuity and collapse, Penumbra depicts a dream-like confrontation between being and the law.

A conversation between a therapist and their client unfolds as a yellow ball swings back and forth. Replicating simple animations of online EMOR videos used to treat PTSD, the film feeds Octavia Butler's short story 'Bloodchild' through scripted therapeutic protocols, destabilising relations between coercion and consent, form and content, trauma and fiction.