The animated work, plays with ‘animatic (dis)entanglement’, an approach to animal cinematics that interrogates the historical and contemporary ethnographic methods of capture inherent in film and art making. I invite the human-animal reader to experience these processual interiorities as they are felt to me at the time. With little editing, what I experienced at the robotic dairy farm and the ecology of interactions that unravelled was a call to find another locomotion, a sidling depiction of the performative. To animate the otherwise representative disconnect between the subjugated labour of animals, and a human’s capacity to ‘assert dominion through the act of assigning meaning.’