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In a northern factory town studded with smokestacks and the brutalist blockhouses of bureaucracy, a tentative union grows between a man isolated from himself and a woman struggling against the experts who have pre-packaged her life for her. Amid their world’s rigidity they eke out a normal-enough shared life with their growing son, however their love feels as mechanical as the clanging, sooty works that surround them. A fateful trip to the countryside changes everything in an instant, as they behold the mystery of The Giant.
With wordless intensity and cleverly evolving visuals, GIANT’S KETTLE paints its ultra-modern family portrait with a surrealist touch that will tease and delight lovers of classic black-and-white headtrips such as ERASERHEAD and PERSONA.
- Jonathan Kieran
In a northern factory town studded with smokestacks and the brutalist blockhouses of bureaucracy, a tentative union grows between a man isolated from himself and a woman struggling against the experts who have pre-packaged her life for her. Amid their world’s rigidity they eke out a normal-enough shared life with their growing son, however their love feels as mechanical as the clanging, sooty works that surround them. A fateful trip to the countryside changes everything in an instant, as they behold the mystery of The Giant.
With wordless intensity and cleverly evolving visuals, GIANT’S KETTLE paints its ultra-modern family portrait with a surrealist touch that will tease and delight lovers of classic black-and-white headtrips such as ERASERHEAD and PERSONA.
- Jonathan Kieran