Cattle Call

Cattle Call is a highspeed animated documentary about the art of livestock auctioneering Structured around the mesmerizing talents of 2007 ManSask Auctioneer Champion Tim Dowler and using a variety of classic and avantgarde animation techniques including stopmotion cutouts openexposures holepunching and rubbing lettraset directly on the celluloid filmmakers Maryniuk and Rankin have created images as dazzlingly abstract absurd and adrenalizing as the incredible language of auctioneering itself This hallucinogenic study of what Werner Herzog has termed the poetry of capitalism