In Marianna Simnett’s short film The Udder, commissioned for the Jerwood/FVU Awards 2016, the mammary gland of the title doubles as a kind of memory machine that plugs us directly into a heightened, reverberant universe. Shot on a robot dairy farm in rural Sussex, and conjuring extraordinary performances from the people who live and work there, Simnett’s magic-realist tale considers the increasingly technical process of automated milk production as the site of an elemental struggle between the forces of purification and corruption.