Mr Pharmaceuticals

 

An exclusive preview of Hannah Perry's short film for Channel 4: Random Acts, broadcast Monday 21 August at midnight

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Mr Pharmaceuticals (2017) is a short film never intended to be made. Recorded at an ashram while London-based artist Hannah Perry was on a three-week retreat at the Osho International Meditation Resort in Pune, India, the film is a snippet of a conversation Perry had with another retreat member in the smoking area. Discussing evolutionary science and the connection of science to spirituality, the conversation turned to the idea of thought detached from consciousness and, perhaps fittingly, Perry decide to press the record button on her phone. A declaration of anxiety by the artist leads to the analogy of a TV running in the background. Her interlocutor proposes a metaphor: a rose as a moment of joy. Drifting into a space both vulnerable and affecting for the artist, Mr Pharmaceuticals remembers a fleeting yet important exchange: a private moment of solace now shared.
– Paul Teasdale

 

Hannah Perry’s Mr Pharmaceuticals is screened as part of Random Acts on Channel 4 on Monday 21 August at midnight.