Pizza the Polar Bear Lives Inside a Display Case Inside a Luxury Shopping Mall in Southern China
Jeremy Drummond & Allison Titus
9:50 Minutes, Color/Sound, 4K, 2026 

Pizza the Polar Bear Lives Inside a Display Case Inside a Luxury Shopping Mall in Southern China is interested, among other things, in spectacle—what is held apart for us to view and to be enthralled by, and how we attempt to capture it or hold it captive. It references a video posted on New York Times online about a polar bear named Pizza, known as “the world’s saddest polar bear,” who lived in an aquarium at the Grandview Mall in Guangzhou. Animal welfare activists called for Pizza to be relocated to a natural environment; as of 2018, Pizza was reportedly living in a marine park where he was reunited with his parents. 

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In 2025, Jeremy Drummond and Allison Titus established a collaborative practice to engage and explore their mutual interests in art, poetry, and experimental film. Their first short film, Pizza the Polar Bear Lives Inside a Display Case Inside a Luxury Shopping Mall in Southern China, was completed in September 2026.

Allison Titus has written three books of poems, a novel, and several chapbooks. Her newest book is called HIGH LONESOME. Her honors include poetry fellowships from the NEA, Yaddo, and the Donaldson Writer-in-Residence program at William & Mary, and her work has appeared in A Public Space, Tin House, The Believer Magazine and Ninth Letter, among other places. She is co-editor of the new anthology THE NEW SENT(I)ENCE: Reimagining Animal Poetry, a collection of writing slash manifesto that centers the nonhuman animal's agency, consciousness and creaturehood. Titus lives and works in Richmond, Virginia.

​www.allisontitus.com