Escape Pod

2015. Video (color, sound), media player, screen or projector. 20 min loop. Edition of 3.
Escape Pod follows a golden deer through dreamlike environments of affluence and authority. In the work we encounter a riot gear boutique, immigration checkpoints, a duty-free store in the clouds, and a ultra-luxurious designer bedroom. Composed of one continuous tracking shot and maintaining commercial glossiness, the video installation envisions a dystopian world consumed by material desire.

Jonathan Monaghan film Escape Pod showing surreal spacecraft
Still from video installation showing ultra-luxurious designer bedroom
A golden deer runs through dreamlike environments
A golden fawn in a duty-free store in the clouds
Escape Pod installed at bitforms gallery

installation view from Escape Pod, bitforms gallery, New York, 2015

Still from Monaghans Escape Pod from Sundance Film Festival New Frontier
Installation of Escape Pod

installation view from PAF: Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 2015