Short Profile: Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby
Combined programme
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IFFR 2011
The episodic work of Canadian artist duo Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby reflects on the human condition with humour and empathy and involves the animal kingdom as well.
In this combined programme
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Lesser Apes
Duke & Battersby propose existence is abject, farcical, and messy. An experimental narrative about a primatologist who falls in love with a bonobo. -
Bad Ideas for Paradise
Funny, touching and ambitious in scope and dealing with addiction, spirituality, identity, relationship dynamics and the ongoing quest for joy. -
Being Fucked Up
Episodic video about doing drugs, being young and feeling inadequate. Despite this youthful nihilism, it’s engaging, humble and ultimately optimistic. -
Beauty Plus Pity
A colourful video set within a lush viewing environment populated by costumed taxidermic animals. Part apologia, part call to arms.