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Beauty Plus Pity (2009)
Directed by Cooper Battersby, Emily Vey Duke
Animation, Documentary · 15m
‘Beauty Plus Pity’ sets a colourful single-channel video within a lush viewing environment populated by costumed taxidermic animals. Presented in seven parts, the video considers the potential for goodness amidst the troubled relations between God, humanity, animals, parents and children. While an animated cast of animal “spirit guides” quote Philip Larkin’s poem, This Be the Verse, and implore us to “get out as early as you can” from life and our parents’ grasp, a hunter dreams of a zoo where he might lie next to tranquilized animals calmed of their savagery. A senile and unstable God stumbles, forgets to take his medication, and turns frost into diamonds. ‘Beauty Plus Pity’ contemplates the shame and beauty of existence; it is part apologia, part call to arms.
Crew
- Director
- Cooper Battersby, Emily Vey Duke
Details
- Release date
- 2009-01-01
- Runtime
- 15m
- Genres
- Animation, Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Canada, United States of America