DON CHRI-HOT

DON CHRI-HOT – A FANTASY JOURNEY INTO A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
an experimental video series

DON CHRI-HOT is an experimental video series following the inner journey of a contemporary anti-hero during a pandemic. Across six short video chapters, Don Chri-HOT confronts waste, energy consumption, environmental policies, recycling, and climate change, moving through landscapes shaped by excess and collapse.
Part lone knight, part absurd witness, he questions whether individual action can still redeem the self, others, and the planet—and whether Dulcinea can exist in a world already on fire.
Blending satire, poetic imagery, and controlled madness, DON CHRI-HOT reframes ecological crisis as a psychological and moral battlefield. The series suggests that losing one’s sense of reason—tilting at giants both real and imagined—may be the only remaining form of resistance.

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Emerging from the Danish community-based project “The Art Party”, this experimental video series developed its own autonomous artistic form, using art and activism to examine sustainability. Don Chri-HOT reimagines Don Quixote in a reality shaped by climate change: wind turbines replace giants, Rosinante becomes an electric scooter, and the lance is exchanged for a two-metre-long selfie stick. Set during a global pandemic and staged not in untouched nature but among waste, rubber, and debris, the work confronts environmental destruction and asks whether the idea of a greener future still holds meaning.

Actor and climate activist Christian Gade Bjerrum, embodies this contemporary Quixote. Through performances, interventions, and public debates across Denmark, Don Chri-HOT operates at the intersection of art and civic action. As part of The Art Reactor, the project has taken multiple forms—from parades and panel discussions to live-streamed performance talks and guerrilla actions in governmental spaces—challenging both institutions and individuals to rethink responsibility and sustainability.

written and directed by:
Giuseppe L. Bonifati (Italy)

with
Christian Gade Bjerrum (Don Chri-Hot)

with the special participation of
Uffe Elbæk (Sancho)

assistant
Cüneyt Pala (Denmark)

video & editing
Linda Sugataghy (Hungary)

production by
DOO performing arts group