Farm Fatale

With no more fields to protect and no more birds to scare, five idle, slightly dented scarecrows set up a pirate radio station. In this pristine white dystopia, the living have all but disappeared. And everything has fallen silent. Melancholy archivists of the sounds of nature's yesteryear, hack musicians or seasoned interviewers of the last survivors of the animal kingdom, they re-enchant the world by fighting against its silence.

Are these clumsy dreamers as naive as they seem? Nothing is less certain. Philippe Quesne's ecological fable doesn't lose sight of the social question, or the culprits. Under the haystacks, slogans and placards are ready to be drawn. The revolt rumbles on.