Pastoral no.52011

An open glade with a couple making out on a blanket foregrounds a lovely wooded hill that filmmaker, visual artist and interdisciplinarian Jonn Herschend frames for another of his chronicles of dysfunction in the workplace. The director of a film using the park as a location calls action and a couple walks out of the trees and down the path as a young man yells and follows them to complain about their dog. Far from being part of the script, this is the eighth take the man has ruined. Fight or flight from the persistent pest? PASTORAL NO.5 is a reminder that a picnic often attracts ants. - Marilyn Ferdinand