still intact, gelatinous
and perfect
for swallowing

“A becoming-animal always involves a pack, a band, a population, a peopling, in short, a multiplicity” write philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari (1978: 239); a conceptual node in this audio-visual exploration of monstrous becomings and woman-forest-animal-memory assemblages. Unceasingly forming and reforming, this 12’06” artist film seeks the “seeping edge” (Massumi 1996: 217) between actual and virtual terrains, by blurring borders and boundaries, and entering into territories shared between human and non-human animals.

Hairy limbs, strange bodies, slippery assemblages and glowing eyes, captured on motion sensor triggered bait cameras in forests in Sweden, cyclically multiply, merge and intersect to the rhythms and sounds of traditional female Swedish cattle calling – kulning – a song beckoning a return home – interspersed with meditations navigating across memory, imagination, time, longing, desire, becomings, and looping returns, investigating activities and rituals taking place in the peripheries of dominant culture.

‘Kulning’ – a Swedish cattle calling practice – performed by Åsa Larsson: www.resmiranda.se