In the Trees

Feeling the rain and tasting the sweet nectar of fruit for the first time, a baby monkey experiences its surrounds from the comfort of its mother’s embrace – until it is pried away and subjected to experiments for scientific gain and research.

Taking a deeper look into Harry Harlow’s attachment theory from the perspective of his subjects, and drawing from decades of testing on primates, the narrative explores whether psychological and medical research are worth the suffering that animals endure. Emphasising the dimensions of the landscape by blending 2D animation with tangibly built backgrounds, Monkey_C makes note of what has happened and what is still happening today under the regulations of modern animal-testing facilities.