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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.











