ANIMAL CONDENSED>>ANIMAL EXPANDED#2
Synopsis
The director couldnât have anticipated the coronavirus epidemic, but here is a near-future world in which a middle-class protagonist lives indoors, congratulating himself on the economic virtues of having ingested âanimal condensedâ â an unexplained substance that seems to merge human and animal â and its benefits to his comfortably alienated life. âIt optimises, it abstracts⌠it made us safe, here at home, with our accelerated portfoliosâ, he explains. Upstairs, his daughter virtually reconfigures Peppa Pig. Outside, meanwhile, hiding in the forest, is an unnamed, camouflaged fugitive, who explains her escape from a society that seems to have happily abolished the distinction between organic and technological life. An artist who has become a guerrilla fighter, the woman is busy preparing totem-like countermeasures to disrupt those who have become âanimal expandedâ.
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