Animalz is an exuberant fantasy in which boys emerge from the sea, like the original amphibians, and colonise a forest, marking out their territory in a break-dance celebration of Nature and her feral sons.
The film takes the urban B-Boy skills of Brighton and Hove’s B3 Boys into the city’s surrounding natural landscapes, where the sixteen 8-14 year-old dancers were encouraged to bring out the animal in themselves in their energetic performances.
Animalz evokes ancient legends of wild children such as the founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus and the Indian boy Mowgli who were raised in the wilderness by animals. While the work proposes the possibility of redemption through communion with our animal natures, it also offers a utopian antidote to the contemporary social reality that kids have no were to play- safely.

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