Prayers for Roadkill

Overview

In Simnett’s stop motion animation film and intricate sculptures depicting hybrid human-animal creatures, she wields the aesthetic of vintage children’s television programming, soft play areas, and modernist asylums to explore the emotional and material entanglements of love and cruelty. To create the characters in her film, Simnett not only literally reanimates roadkill but reclaims – and thereby empowers – the image of the animal to plumb the depths of some of the darkest, most fundamental aspects of being human.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 2022

Original language

XX

Director

Marianna Simnett

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

Homepage

Official site

IMDb

tt33270092