Beauty Plus Pity (2009)

Presented in seven parts Beauty Plus Pity considers the potential for goodness amidst the troubled relations between God humanity animals parents and children While an animated cast of animal spirit guides quote Philip Larkins poem This Be the Verse and implore us to get out as early as you can from life and our parents grasp a hunter dreams of a zoo where he might lie next to tranquilized animals calmed of their savagery A senile and unstable God stumbles forgets to take his medication and turns frost into diamonds Beauty Plus Pity contemplates the shame and beauty of existence it is part apologia part call to arms