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Environmental
Animation for Kids! Saturday, Oct 5th, 2:30pm Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell University |
Free and Open to the Public
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 In this, our fourth
annual presentation of environmental animations for kids, we present
Bee-lines (Rachel Bevan Baker, Scotland, 1999, 7
min), in which a woman inherits an apparently lifeless garden. In
the spring, as the flowers bloom and the garden is reborn, the woman
grows attached to a swarm of bees that call the garden home. In Don’t
Get Charged Up! (Vicente Amorim, Carlos Duba and João
Amorim, Brazil, 4 min) various styles of animation show how pollution
from carelessly thrown away batteries can harm the environment, animals,
and people. Terminator Tomatoes  (Suzanne
Twining, USA, 2001, 5 min) looks at a farmer and his daughter who
get in too deep with a crop of genetically modified tomatoes, while
Wintersleeper (David Geertsma, Germany, 2001, 5 min)
centers around a different kind of abnormality: a bear who wakes from
hibernation to find himself put to work in a factory (an adaption
of the classic The Bear that Wasn’t). And in Sea
Song (Richard Reeves, Canada, 1999, 4 min), Richard Reeves’
‘cameraless’ film, we are treated to a pulsating impression
of life beneath the sparkling sea at night. Brightly-painted aquatic
forms and textures flash and float across the screen to a foot- tapping
soundtrack of hand-drawn booms, crackles, hisses, pops, and buzzes.
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For more information on Bee-lines, please visit the Scottish Screen.
For more about Terminator Tomatoes, Contact Suzanne Twining