A strange mix of fantasy and realism, Trouble in Paradise presents a future-Earth where advances in technology have broken down the barriers separating dream, desire and reality, producing a hallucinatory world that references the works of writer Angela Carter and film-maker David Cronenberg. The animation follows a family as they make their way through a ruined temple overrun with alien statues, impossible plant life and artefacts of a fictional past. Despite the absurdity of what they see, the tourists walk around the ruins unfazed, taking in the sights as if everything was normal. Forming part of a larger investigation into how our increasing immersion in the internet changes the way we experience the natural world, Trouble in Paradise examines the anxiety and possibilities brought about when the digital spaces existing on the other side of our phone, laptop and television screens encroach into the material world.

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Ben Morris