Directed by Dallas Cant

Logline: A discarded plastic suit turned eco-friendly product explores the inter-implications of materiality and paid erotics.

Synopsis: By working directly with the uncared for 'leftovers' of capitalist consumption, Hot Plastic Suits questions how human-centered and colonial systems of imagined limitlessness and replicability have encouraged fleeting affections with human and beyond human things.

Distribution Contact: WFG

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RUNTIME: 6 Minutes
GENRE: Experimental
PRODUCTION FORMAT: HD
LANGUAGE: English
LOCATION: Manitoba
TECHNIQUES: Computer Animation
KEYWORDS: Sex Work, Discard, Commerciality, Materiality, Queer Ecology, LGBTQ Filmmaker, Female Filmmaker

Director's Statement: The quite literally hot plastic suit serves as catalyst to parody the language and individualized rhetoric of green capitalism and take seriously the mundane emotionality of living with materially informed environments. By incorporating paid erotic gestures, Hot Plastic Suits complicates overtly simplistic critiques of commerciality, calling for a queer environmental politics that works to unravel the greed and destruction of colonialism without forgetting the legitimacy of sex work.