Catherine Chalmers | 2 min | USA | 2011

WORLD PREMIERE

We Rule is from “The Leafcutters” series – a project that includes video, photography, drawing and sculpture. It was filmed at Liquid Jungle Lab, a biological research station on Isla Canales de Tierra off the Pacific coast of Panama. The soundtrack was created from wildlife recorded on location: howler monkeys, parrots, toucans, insects and an agouti.

The piece portrays these industrious creatures as agriculturalists, living in large societies, maintained through complex systems of communication, and personifying what are predominantly thought of as behaviors and character traits solely expressed by humans.

SCREENING SCHEDULE
Science for Nanos
2:00pm Sunday, October 16, 2011
New York Hall of Science