A Shape of Things to Come
Social distancing takes on a disquieting new meaning in A Shape Of Things To Come, an ethnographic documentary and borderlands Western that follows Sundog, who lives off the land in the Sonoran Desert, content to be far removed from society.
About the film.
Available online, 15 Oct - 14 Nov ‘21
$12 / $9 conc (passes available)
2020 | 77’ | USA | English | Lisa Marie Malloy, J.P Sniadecki
Content Warning: Contains graphic depictions of animal slaughter.
A borderlands Western of provocative questions and stirring complexity, this disquietening documentary attentively studies Sundog, a battle hardened recluse living off the land in the Sonoran Desert, with a haunting immersion.
As eccentric as he is self-sufficient, Sundog is compulsively watchable, a mystery who is studied with great intrigue and without judgment, but whose behaviour burrows to the heart of how one’s identity and existence can be so deeply embedded in their surrounding environment.
As Sundog’s remote paradise is increasingly encroached upon by Border Patrol — amidst times where nature as a whole is increasingly infringed upon by the inventions of capitalism — A Shape of Things to Come poetically and thrillingly encapsulates the critical relationship shared between humanity and nature, and the dark depths man can be pushed to when that relationship is tested.
Content Warning: Contains graphic depictions of animal slaughter.