Vendor Beast is a short film that explores cross species relationships, nostalgia and loss, in a world of increasingly manufactured landscapes. Nature programmes full of wonder and spectacle offer an idealised version of the world. Faced with the realities of ecological crisis and rampant capitalism, we are left with nostalgia for a world that never existed. Footage of children, almost in flight, with captive polar bears becomes a dystopian analogy of the 1982 animation, The Snowman. Synonymous with climate change campaigns, the polar bear has become a celebrity, presented behind glass like snacks in a vending machine,for us to live out our fantasies; can’t we see that this snowman has already melted?