# animate! › Films › Animal Tragic by Tim Macmillan

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Discovery terms: 2000s animation, time-slice photography, digital compositing, human-animal relationships, urban life, violence, experimental short film, filmmaker, artist

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**Animal Tragic** a film by Tim Macmillan

2003, 6 min 28 sec

![Animal Tragic, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/animaltragic09.jpg)

### a film by Tim Macmillan

### animate! synopsis

An unsettling take on the ‘natural history’ of our contemporary urban environment, recreating three reported incidents where humans and ‘friendly’ animals interact badly – a postman kills a dog, a dog attacks a child, a horse kills a cyclist.

### key credits

**director**
Tim Macmillan

**Animal Tragic** film, stills and other materials © Tim Macmillan 2003