Virtue and a Sledgehammer – take a literal hammer to your past
What do you do when you return to your home town, with your dead mother in your car boot, to find the inhabitants have been turned into robots? In the boot of her car, Pratelle carries the corpse of her mother and a giant sledgehammer. Her mission is simple: take the hammer to her home town. As you enter shops and homes through the door and leave them through the opposite wall, it becomes clear that the robots who either attack you or flee are all digital versions of your old neighbours. Pratelle, with her close-cropped hair and dungarees, read to me as a queer woman, but interestingly, teste…
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