A Litany of Malfunctions, Hazards, Misdeeds & Deceptions
2016
Characters:
Noble Corpse, Father Xmas, Narrator, Corpse’s cock
We are in the office of the powerful CEO of a global corporation. The CEO sits behind a desk large enough to signal his status. He could be any age between 65 and 120: parched and machine-like, as if his papery skin has been stretched over a skeleton fashioned from stainless steel. A fat, greasy, disheveled man of around 60 sits in the chair opposite. He wears a shabby Father Christmas suit and a boasts an unrepentant seediness. While he is clearly the subordinate in this master-servant relationship, co-dependence has engendered a perverse, almost ritualistic, struggle for power between the pair.
Five short films and a prologue:
A collection of scratchy vignettes that may be viewed in any order: the scripts appropriate the corporate PR literature of the Noble Corporation, a major contract driller of oil and natural gas wells, its language disintegrating as various body fluids flood the scenes.
· A Prologue
· Code of Conduct
· Focused on Excellence
· Making Waves
· Vigilance!
· It’s What’s Inside that Counts
Made in response to a month-long expeditionary arts/science residency in the High Arctic undertaken in 2013, with the support of thearcticcircle.org