The ArtPrize Experience

When a secret disciple has to endure secret agony.

This film will trace the emergence of the Killer Clown from historical roots in Italian Opera, to contemporary prominence in mass media. Down with Clowns will explore the relationship between the violence of society, the mission of the clown and the way humans deal with their fear of both.

A 2 minute 30 second alarm bell depicting what the world could become. The video represents a symbolic funeral pyre for a bruised and battered papier mache globe that had accompanied activist events facilitated by the Arusha Centre for the past few years. In the video, a hazmat suited individual emerges for this globe, coats the globe in black tar like substance before setting it ablaze. Darkly overtoned, the piece reads like a challenge against a dystopian future. The accompanying soundtrack is a noise art collaboration by darklily.

The documentary takes viewers behind closed doors of industrial poultry, pig, dairy, and fish farms, hatcheries, and slaughterhouses-revealing the overlooked process of how animals go from farm to fridge.