IN VITRO (Melbourne IFF 2024) – Review by Nadine Whitney

Will Howarth and Tom McKeith’s more cerebral and low-fi In Vitro does away with massive cataclysmic events and focuses on slow resource attrition. Things are simply falling apart in depressing entropy. Much like the marriage of synthetic meat farmers Jack (Ashley Zukerman) and Layla (Talia Zucker). The future looks uncannily like now except with large tanks for fully cloned animals. In Vitro is disturbing and magnificently utilises the odd phantasmagoria of the Australian rural landscape to make an impact.

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