Bugs & Beasts Before the Law (2019)
Film and Video Installation

'Bugs and 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.

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.

Purchase artist book Bugs & Beasts Before the Law: Appendix A-L
Soft Cover, 92 pp, with 6 transparency pages interspersed throughout, 9 x 6 inches (portrait)
Publisher: Henry Art Gallery, 2020
Designer and Printer: Gary Robbins at Container Corps
Featuring texts by Henry curator Nina Bozicnik, Sarah Keenan, Greta Lafleur and Marianne Shaneen.