Patrick Goddard's 2021 FVU-commissioned film Animal Antics screens at Tate Modern as part of the event A Cage Named Garden: Survey of Artists' Films at the Zoo on Wednesday 30 October 2024, 6:30-9pm.

Following from Tate Modern’s 2022 Counter Encounters series titled Several Encounters over Plants, A Cage Named Garden takes viewers to the zoo.

Conceived by writer and curator Filipa Ramos, the programme looks at the modes of observation and inquiry created by zoological gardens and how they influence both viewers during their leisure time and those artists who have chosen these environments as a source of intellectual, affective and creative input.

A Cage Named Garden brings together the work of artists Simone Forti, Patrick Goddard, Roman Selim Khereddine and Jeannette Muñoz to consider the artistic gaze towards the exhibition of nature and the complex and often troubled histories that surround the zoo as a place and apparatus for learning, entertainment and ideological aims.

Patrick Goddard’s Animal Antics is a philosophical and comical short story. Shot at the London Zoo, the film portrays the conversations between Sarah, a young human, and Whoopsie, her talking dog, about the troubled state of nature.

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Commissioned and produced by Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN) and Film and Video Umbrella with funding from Arts Council England. Co-commissioned with Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, E-WERK Freiburg and Hayward Gallery Touring.