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Most Dismal Swamp: The Bastard Fields - Trailer
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The Bastard Fields is a new video work by Most Dismal Swamp, commissioned by Autotelic Foundation and Vienna Digital Cultures. The piece will premiere online and IRL simultaneously in May 2025 through viennadigitalcultures.at.
The artist describes its vision as follows:
"a degenerative fever-dream emerging from a slumgullion world of model-collapsed realities. It reflects our emerging neural mediascape and its adversarial hallucinations as a sublime 'hostile architecture'. The cast of The Bastard Fields includes an embittered bog body discussing exit strategies with a homemade robot, two creative directors hustling some reality-settings among a DIY Splinternet, a mystic rabbit vlogging on the nature of rabbit holes, an outlaw preacher tending his field conventicle, and poor little Brownie is martyred 🥺. This is the clamour and humiliation of content at the end of the world.”
Directed by Dane Sutherland, Unreal Engine by David Reason, Music performed by Kelora, Gloves, mask and sash by SOMA FAITANIN.