For any readers in the UK, you will know that fly-tipping is one of the major issues of our times.
Don’t worry this isn’t me jumping on my high horse about a social issue; well except to say – clean up your own rubbish!
Anyways, director Gemma Rigg is taking a look at this issue with the new stop motion short Mattricide, which focuses on the issue of old mattresses getting dumped.
We see a woman on a bench reading about the issue in the local newspaper, and with every cutaway another mattress appears on the scene. Think of the scene from The Birds at the children’s playground but with well, mattresses.
Have the mattresses become self-aware and have a plan for taking over the world? This is the kind of surrealistic thought path you need to truly understand Mattricide.
Rigg thinks outside the box and creates something wholly unique and bonkers.
Mattricide screens as part of Cabane A Sang Film Festival 2023.
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