Emily Vey Duke Movies
- 2021
Skinned
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A terrible virus finally brings down the internet, and humans look out from the wreckage in the aftermath. Five weigh in with personal recollections:...
- 2011
Lesser Apes
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Lesser Apes tells the story of a love affair between a primatologist, Farrah and a female bonobo ape, Meema. Bonobos are the species with which...
- 2021
The Infernal Grove
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The Infernal Grove is an unsystematic structural analysis of drug use, addiction and recovery (not necessarily in that order). It is anti-carceral,...
- 2015
Dear Lorde
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Fourteen year old bone collector Maxine Rose is looking for validation from her heroes. These include primatologist Jane Goodall, Archbishop Desmond...
- 2001
Bad Ideas for Paradise
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Funny, touching and ambitious in scope, Bad Ideas continues to deal with many of the themes addressed in Duke and Battersby’s earlier works:...
- 2009
Beauty Plus Pity
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Presented in seven parts, Beauty Plus Pity considers the potential for goodness amidst the troubled relations between God, humanity, animals, parents...
- 2019
You Are an Amazement
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Semi-autobiographical, experimental narrative film tells the story of a woman growing up battling mental and emotional disability, but with a...
- 2019
You Were an Amazement on the Day You Were Born
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A darkly comic film that follows a woman through a life characterized by damage, loss, humour and joy. With a score that follows the span of her...
- 2021
Civil Twilight at the Vernal Equinox
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“What would another world look like, one that is carried by this feeling of empathy, of mutual love between humans and animals, between...
- 2013
Here Is Everything
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“Here is Everything appears as a message from The Future, as narrated by a cat and a rabbit. The two spiritual guides have decided to address...
- 2018
After the American Election
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Based on dreams (waking and non-waking) by pals and acquaintances of noted American writer Lucy Corin, the night after the epochal US election of...
- 2006
Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure
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Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure is a fourteen-minute experimental video that unfolds through a series of short episodes. "To describe...
- 2003
Curious About Existence
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Episodic in nature, Curious About Existence reacts ultimately against an uninspired but prevailing acceptance of moral terms. It begins with a song...
- 2002
The Fine Arts
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In The Fine Arts, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby mock their own lack of inspiration: a woman confesses that she’s speaking French in the...