FILM

An adaptation of part of Bernadette Mayer’s book Utopia, in which the non-binary poet depicts a utopia in the form of everyday life in the here and now, like a child’s game. Leisure, Utopic is the translation of chapter 4, about the arrangement of houses and buildings, birth, death, money, schools, dentists, birth control, work, air, remedies, etc.

A young child reads Mayer’s utopian programme in the form of an inventory, in an updated version so that contemporary patterns are revealed: “There is no Instagram, twitter is what birds do…”