Modern Fables for Complicated Times

John Scott, USA, 2026, 31 mins

Modern Fables for Complicated Times is a visual album that features multiple short films with recurring nocturnal animal characters. It braids music, poetry, space-travel visuals and our character’s mental health challenges in a fablesque animal-character-story-world that energetically confronts isolating modern life here on planet Earth.

Limits of Math, 9 mins
Lay Yourself Down, 7 mins
Old Fair Lights, 8 mins
Grey Kitty, 7 mins

Cinemapolis: screening time TBA – Ithaca-based filmmaker John Scott will join us in person for post-screening Q&A  (FREE EVENT)