If cows didn't like mustard

Lucy Meyle and Ziggy Lever's If cows didn't like mustard (2026) departs from a real 1882 event in which silver-gelatin coated glass plates accidentally contaminated with gelatin from cows fed on mustard plants nearly destroyed the Eastman Dry Plate Company (later Kodak). The film experiments with the materiality of film itself—its grains and particles—to consider the competing agency of humans, plants, animals, and technology within image production and meaning-making.

This screening presents the work alongside a curated selection of other moving image pieces, exploring how unexpected material encounters reshape technological and artistic possibility.