Púca
*A mischeivious shapeshifting creature. Can help or hinder humans that come across it’s path.
Púca transcript
What if I told you that they were right?
That there are such things as supernatural creatures that seek to trick us?
Although things have changed, some things still remain the same.
They’re not hard to spot when you know what to look for.
Bodies of Water and caves remain areas of travel between their world and ours.
But instead of a well or a fairy mound they instead use water dispensers and garage doors.
They’ve evolved with us in our modern age and adapted to the world of hypercapitalism and neoliberalism. Thriving in causing mysery for people day by day.
They normally creep around office buildings and houses of parliament. Thriving in the labyrinth of bureaucracy and offshore accounts.
One may even appear in front of you if you fail to submit the correct form in time.
Tricksters that at one time would have stolen your cattle and claimed your children, now seek to take your information.
It is also equally necessary to pay your respects to these entities in order to survive.
Instead of leaving offerings as you would or paying a tithe...
You instead pay them with your personal information, your data and time.
Doing this helps them to remain more powerful than you can ever dream of being in your lifetime.
While you work and your body breaks.
Fairies pioneered free market capitalism and thrive in the chaos.
That there are such things as supernatural creatures that seek to trick us?
Although things have changed, some things still remain the same.
They’re not hard to spot when you know what to look for.
Bodies of Water and caves remain areas of travel between their world and ours.
But instead of a well or a fairy mound they instead use water dispensers and garage doors.
They’ve evolved with us in our modern age and adapted to the world of hypercapitalism and neoliberalism. Thriving in causing mysery for people day by day.
They normally creep around office buildings and houses of parliament. Thriving in the labyrinth of bureaucracy and offshore accounts.
One may even appear in front of you if you fail to submit the correct form in time.
Tricksters that at one time would have stolen your cattle and claimed your children, now seek to take your information.
It is also equally necessary to pay your respects to these entities in order to survive.
Instead of leaving offerings as you would or paying a tithe...
You instead pay them with your personal information, your data and time.
Doing this helps them to remain more powerful than you can ever dream of being in your lifetime.
While you work and your body breaks.
Fairies pioneered free market capitalism and thrive in the chaos.
I have been reading At the bottom of the garden by Dianne Perkiss. Fairies are the personification of the human desire to understand. Fairies are the projection of bad things happening to ordinary people. I want to see the trixter that previously spoiled crops now in the modern age has left the forest and stalks high rises and enacts trickery.
I use the mask to emply the carnivalesque and make anonymous critique as the narrator and fairy head piece made from cardboard and textiles to highlight the absurdity of the business suit.
I learned how to play the tin whistle and recorded all of the sound effects using children’s instruments and my voice to lean into playing music and doing it in an unashamed and amateurish way, referencing the Jack Halberstram’s Queer Art of Failure.
The initial version of the film had issues with sound and picture quality. I decided to reshoot the entire film while using some footage from the previous version and reworking elements that were succesful.
I use the mask to emply the carnivalesque and make anonymous critique as the narrator and fairy head piece made from cardboard and textiles to highlight the absurdity of the business suit.
I learned how to play the tin whistle and recorded all of the sound effects using children’s instruments and my voice to lean into playing music and doing it in an unashamed and amateurish way, referencing the Jack Halberstram’s Queer Art of Failure.
The initial version of the film had issues with sound and picture quality. I decided to reshoot the entire film while using some footage from the previous version and reworking elements that were succesful.
Special thanks to Emily West, Charlotte Emerton-Rolfe, and Imogen Moon for their help on this project.