Ape Sodom (2016) – 14min – Canada
Writer/Director: Maxwell McCabe-Lokos
Producer: Chris Hatcher
Cast: Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, Mihaly Szábodos, Perrie Olthuis, David Cronenberg (voice)
Set during the decline and fall of the consumerist empire, a filthy garbage-picker is retained as a personal slave by a wealthy ultra-consumer still worshipping at the temple of a life he once knew. Slave is tasked with amassing prized items like Swiffers, cellphone covers and large amounts of hand sanitizer. One night, when a woman joins them in a cheap motel to perform humiliating sexual rituals, Slave has an epiphany about a jellyfish. Now worthless, the Master executes him by Hybrid SUV, leaving him for dead. As his life slips away in the gutter, Slave looks up into the firmament and sees a giant spectral jellyfish: his new deity.
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