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Better Future, Wolf-Shaped
Synopsis
The second installment in the Future trilogy, Better Future, Wolf-Shaped explores the degeneration of an urban totalitarian religion imposing the aesthetics of high modernism on everyday life.
Existing in the periphery, around the Celtic burial sites of Cornwall, the protagonists of the film attempt to implement the rituals of the state, but inevitably generate a more organic aesthetic, replicating modernist architecture in the medium of corn husks.
Communicating through performative gestures and choreographed movement set to a musical score composed by Steven Kado and Die Tödliche Doris, the actors participate in a ritual interaction with the sculptural set they help to construct.
Existing in the periphery, around the Celtic burial sites of Cornwall, the protagonists of the film attempt to implement the rituals of the state, but inevitably generate a more organic aesthetic, replicating modernist architecture in the medium of corn husks.
Communicating through performative gestures and choreographed movement set to a musical score composed by Steven Kado and Die Tödliche Doris, the actors participate in a ritual interaction with the sculptural set they help to construct.
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Selected Screenings
- Vision/Division, Czarna Galleria, Warsaw, 4 April – 17 May 2009
- Roll It To Me, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, 17 March - 9 May 2009
- Artists’ Film, Dance, Music & Theatricality, CCA, Glasgow, 31 July 2008
- The Future So Far, Grey Area, Brighton, 21 June - 6 July 2008
- A Staged Dissent, Life Is Interesting...When You're Furious, University of Loughborough, Loughborough, 18 June 2008
- The Institute of Psychoplasmics, Pump House Gallery, London, 9 April - 26 May 2008
- The Sensible Stage, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 28 February 2008
Project Background
One of the largest publicly funded award programmes for artists in the UK, the London Artists' Film and Video Awards (LAFVA) scheme offered awards of up to £20,000 for production of artists' moving image work.
From 2000 to 2008 the scheme supported London-based artists working in the context of contemporary moving image practice - producing work intended for exhibition in galleries, festivals, specialist venues and as site specific installations.
From 2000 to 2008 the scheme supported London-based artists working in the context of contemporary moving image practice - producing work intended for exhibition in galleries, festivals, specialist venues and as site specific installations.
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Key Information
Film
Better Future, Wolf-Shaped
Artist
Pil and Galia Kollectiv
Project
LAFVA 07
Year Completed
2007
Duration
15'
Shooting format
16mm
Screening format
Single screen, Digi Beta, DVD
