The Great Curdling (final with credits) from Jennet Thomas on Vimeo.
The Great Curdling is a Folk-Sci-Fi film. It’s a darkly comic Musical exploring the feeling that collective reality is at tipping point. A middle-class family are adjusting to a new kind of happy, now they have consumed a transformative liquid technology that helps re-structure them from the inside. The father is interrogated by an Alexa-like voice and his answers build a picture of a world where ‘animals ended’ but mourning them is taboo. Meanwhile, on the shores of a strangely altered sea, two outcast women meet accidentally when they are attacked by autonomous flying packages. They sing about the Curdlings – some unspeakable intermingling of bio-tech horror and Fascism. Although the sea is dying, it's spawning something that could be new life – fantastical creatures that are half-cartoon, and take the form of tiny flexing hands. A funeral cult has formed, worshiping this new phenomena. They are teaching the exiled women how to re-format the colonized, curdled bodies of the dead into a new substance. This film was commissioned for the Whitstable Biennale 2022 info here: whitstablebiennale.com/project/the-great-curdling/
This film is the final part of the quartet ANIMAL CONDENSED>ANIMAL EXPANDED
which takes the form of 4 interrelated videos exploring, through fantasy, the conflicted and curdled relationships humans have with other forms of life. The work collides a number of genres: Folk Sci-Fi, musical, mock-documentary, absurdist satire and uses an unusual mix of digital/physical effects to invoke the forces of technology on lived experience. More info HERE: jennetthomas.wordpress.com/videos/animal-condensedanimal-expanded-a-trilogy/ The series is distributed buy Video Data Bank- follow links here: vdb.org/titles/great-curdling