• Death in the Age of Plenty

    Film

    2025/6



    Supported by:

    Fluxus Arts Projects
    Arts Council Wales
    Frac Bretagne
    Domaine de Kerguéhennec
    Aberystwyth Arts Centre


    Awards

    Arts Council Wales Large Grant

    2025


    Fluxus Arts Projects Laureate

    2024


    Written + Directed by:

    Tom Cardew


    Exhibitions + Screenings:

    tbc

    2027


    Executive Producers:

    tbc



    Film Treatment:


    Death in the Age of Plenty is a new horror film exploring contemporary system collapse through the prism of ancient myth, told through the folkloric, Celtic harbinger of death, Yr Angau. Set within an anachronistic loop between forgotten pasts and possible futures, the work imagines a speculative world where early Welsh and Breton have become a future lingua franca. Rural sculptural objects of wind turbines appear as future megaliths, the last remnants of our present. Welsh and Breton, historically and culturally interconnected are reframed here as signals of endurance.

    In this world, wind turbines and megaliths act as containers for superstition, collective memory, and social disquiet. Hood up and scythe in hand, Yr Angau moves through these landscapes not only to collect souls, but to gather what remains of belief, human story, and kinship. A kind of contemporary Don Quixote, Yr Angau becomes a witness to the end of linear narrative itself.