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The Killing Chain

director: Brit Bunkley

original title: The Killing Chain

country: New Zealand

year: 2021

running time: 5 min.

synopsis

Closed New Zealand’s freezing plants have become ruins with wildlife growing through them. Once they were used by the country’s dominant industry processing livestock into meat and other products, but the industry has been in decline since Britain joined the EEC. Animation permeates the documentary film, with workers arising from archive footages.

biography

Brit Bunkley is a multidisciplinary artist involved in making videos, installations, sculptures and prints. He has created a number of works in the public space, exhibiting his artifacts in galleries and museums worldwide. The frequent topics of his works include majestic landscapes, human wastefulness and paranoid fears of a looming apocalypse.

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director:	Brit Bunkley
producer:	Brit Bunkley

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