Tamala, a carefree one-year-old kitten, decides to flee CatEarth (cat planet) and boards her spaceship in search of her mother and family in the Orion solar system. Due to a meteorite storm, she is forced to make a crash landing on the Planet Q, where she encounters Michelangelo, a cow-painted Porsche driving tomcat that is fascinated by Tamala’s peculiar qualities. Planet Q, beset by cruel violence, is no improvement on CatEarth forcing Tamala deeper into her adventure. The base of Tamala’s traversing space travel adventure is the ‘demolition and rebirth’ programme personified by TATLA and the mega corporation Catty & Co. that is scheming, unbeknownst to Tamala, a wicked conspiracy for the total domination of the entire Feline Galaxy. Set against the background of the Feline Galaxy, with a distant symbolist kinship to the original conception of Japanese animation, Tamala with her massive twinkling eyes has an almost schizophrenic adventure. It parallels, and has similarities to, early vanguard Disney animation encompassing characters, film, music, art and culture and traversing current affairs as its backbone to form a venomous backlash with harmonised expressions in a special sci-fi sensibility. With a music video like plot and its magical unpredictability, Tamala 2010-A Punk Cat in Space is a mosaic of pop culture with a heroine rich in Lolita-like sexual symbolism and a religious immorality embodiment. A partnership of detailed 2D black and white and 3D colour animation. Responsible for the direction, script and music is the artist group t.o.L, also remarkably contributing the 34 songs to an impressive sound track. (KIM Sang-hoon)