Dominic Watson's new work consists of a single screen film with a musical score that revisits the medieval animal trial of a rooster.

Watson's film depicts the trial as an allegorical exploration of the assumed transcendence of humans from the realm of nature. The court is held in an abandoned soup factory where the means of production are also the means of punishment. This industrial setting makes the historical context of the film indistinct, challenging our assumptions about the present as inevitably more progressive than the past. The film combines both actors and puppets, illustrating the mechanisms of external and internal control by which we are governed.

The soundtrack of YEAST has been made in collaboration with Daniel Woodhouse.