Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby, Canada Curious About Existence 2003, Canada 11’30’’

"Curious about Existence" is collection of short episodes incorporating music, animation, and live action. It employs a deft combination of humour and humanism to maintain the engagement of the viewer as s/he is drawn through a number of divergent narrative worlds. The thread that holds these worlds together is a persistent curiosity about the spiritual and material world and its inhabitants: humans, animals, the laws of nature, and so on.

Cooper Battersby

b. 1971, Penticton British Columbia, Canada

Emily Vey Duke

b. 1972, Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada They have been working collaboratively since June 1994. They work in printed matter, installation, curation and sound, but their primary practice is the production of single-channel video. Their work has been exhibited in galleries and at festivals in North and South America and throughout Europe and they won several prizes.