In The Jungle

In The Jungle, playfully and sorrowfully tells the tale of an unreliable

narrator in a self imposed exile. Given a grant to study the equivalent of

animal cries and whines in jungle flora our heroine has lived for 1, 612

days deep in an unnamed jungle. This jungle serves as an extended metaphor for excessive and continual growth and death and fear and sustenance; a metaphorical space of chaos in which the scientist finds solace and which stands in contrast to the human jungle of 'civilization'. 

Equal parts musical, performance, and poetic lecture, In The Jungle is an hour long, single channel video written and directed by Stephanie Barber; shot by Matthew Robert Thompson; starring Cricket Arrison (of Wham City) and M.C. Schmidt (of Matmos)with set design by Smelling Salt Amusements.