Sponsor
James and Anne Duderstadt Center
Community Partner
University of Michigan Museum of Art
Donors
Tom Bray & Jeri Hollister
Giant’s Kettle
Markku Hakala and Mari Käki
Warsaw & Mazowieckie, Poland | 2023 | 70 | DCP
World Premiere
In a rational utopia somewhere up north there is a man longing for connection and a woman who has everything figured out for her, without her. They do their best to fit in and fulfill their roles but struggle to connect with the world, themselves, and others. Something important has been left out, chained to the dark corners of the past. As if the whole world was drained of love, chugging along on mere duties and bureaucratic inertia. During the family trip back to the past, everything starts to break apart. For how long is it possible to resist the force of life?
Giant’s Kettle is a journey into the unconscious, a love story without love, an epic tragicomedy of the mundane, and a mystery in a world emptied of mystery.
presented with short in competition
and so it came about (A Tale of Consequential Dormancy)
Charlotte Pryce
Los Angeles, CA | 2023 | 13 | DCP
A mythological tale—the story of Persephone—is retold, recast, and relocated to the periphery of a common. The entangled intrigues of the seen and the unseen conspire to disclose an underland at once enticing and threatening. But what are the consequences of such trespassing between worlds?