Beauty Plus Pity
Beauty Plus Pity considers the potential for goodness amidst the troubled relations between God, humanity, animals, parents and children. A cast of animal ‘spirit guides’ quotes Philip Larkin and implores us to ‘get out as early as you can’ from life and our parents’ grasp, a hunter dreams of lying next to tranquilised animals.
Also 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.
Film details
- Country of production
- Canada
- Year
- 2010
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 14'
- Medium/Format
- Betacam Digi
