It’s a Disaster!
Synopsis
It’s a Disaster! literalizes the overlaps between pop-cultural imaginaries of contagion, alien invasion, and climate disasters. Part of a larger body of research, which includes a feature in progress, examining our long metaphorical “war on disease” and its real-world consequences. Originally produced for an overlapping three-screen projection system at the Tentacular Festival at Matadero Madrid.
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