The Moschops

Set about 250 million years ago and narrated by its eponymous mammal-like reptiles, Jim Trainor's latest poses a melancholy hypothesis on the origin of romantic longing and its expression through aggressive head-butting. Trainor is a scientist whose theories come out as line-drawing poetry, going deeper by remaining on the shaky, quavering surface, pulling us dangerously close by keeping us carefully estranged' (Spencer Parsons, Cinematexas) Trainor lives at the Art Institute of Chicago. His next project may be a live-action film about zoo monkeys.