The title plays on the notion of 'party animal', and the idea that you can become someone else when the environment dictates. The story came about after Steve entered the wrong party one night. Having stopped to roll a cigarette, he looked up and his friends had disappeared. Hearing noises from a nearby house, he wandered in and spent a happy, slightly smashed and polite evening in the company of drag queens. 

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Part Animal was made in After Effects, using two photographs of 1920's Australian convicts, a man and a woman. Over the course of the film, these faces merge imperceptibly, reflecting the wilful shift of identity implicit in the story.

 

The music creates a sense of being heavily sedated, a subterranean echo, whirling in an environment peopled by strangers.