Intelligent Design
Interspecies Art

Jim Trainor

In Harmony, Jim Trainor's darkly comic voiceover contrasts with his cartoon drawings of charismatic megafauna. The lions, dolphins, and bonobos depicted in his felt-tip pen animated films speak with brute honesty about their crimes, at least as they would be defined by human social standards: infanticide, gang rape, and incest. Dubbed the "Walt Disney of Sexual Anxiety" by one film critic, Trainor's film strips the warm fuzziness from the nature documentary genre.

Artist biography PDF

Links to artist:

http://www.aurora.org.uk/?lid=1828

Interview:

http://www.fnewsmagazine.com/2005-sept/interviews_2.html