Tiger (72000 BC – 2059 AC)

Renee Shi

| United States

| 00:01:50

Saturday 22 June 10:15 AM

As generations pass, the ever-growing burden of climate change is passed to the young generations, until it finally bursts. A young girl innocently asks about an animal from the past, a “tiger”, and is met with the existential truth of her existence. This generational hot potato is ignored and mindlessly added to without any thought of its consequences.

Programme

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