23/10/2020
PACTO is excited to share a new work by two PACTO members Sophia Simensky and Leslie Lawrence.
http://firesermon.lostdad.online/
The Fire Sermon inhabits a world where artists adopt outlandish personas against a backdrop of a society in permanent crisis. This short film follows Solid Mercury and Dead Stirnerman, the hosts of an artistic television broadcast, who try to turn the ever-changing situation to their advantage to support their show.
Things are looking good as the studio radar protects them from outside threats and a government work programme has led to them securing a new intern to work beneath them. However, their plans are upended when their guest, the famous Doctor Design, reveals a new discovery outside the crisis zone.
In this film, Sophia Simensky and Leslie Lawrence address the idea of employment as a moral value and question whether there is an opportunity in crisis to prioritise social relationships instead of work as an end in itself. Artist Janina Fritz features as 'Doctor Design' with her ceramic sculpture and Constantin Dichtl appears as 'The Intern'.
ø Leslie Lawrence
works as a filmmaker, theorist, and multi-disciplinary artist.
ø Sophia Simensky
is a scenographer and costume designer for stage and film working predominantly with new writing and drama.
ø Lost Dad Publishing
is an artist-run publishing house based in Amsterdam and Copenhagen. Through this platform, we publish printed matters and moving images. Organizing live events mainly focusing on artistic research through fiction, comics, poems, essays and experiments.
Born from a vision of interdependence, we see publishing as a shared space, a space where individual research and practice can co-exist with collective struggles and ideals. Our main interest is to facilitate the circulation of artistic research, the ideas it may explore and to extend the reach of artist's voices.
Website: http://lostdad.online
