Animation comes in many shapes and sizes: 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) is a stop-motion look at a farmer and his daughter who get in too deep with a crop of genetically modified tomatoes. Another stop-motion film, Rocks (Der Rad) (Chris Stenner, Heidi Wittlinger and Arvid Uibel, Germany, 2001, 9 min), looks at history through the eyes of two best friends, who just happen to be rocks. On the traditional, drawn-animation side, we have Arkelope (Roslyn Schwartz, Canada, 1994, 5 min), a darkly humorous look at extinction; and Wintersleeper, (David Geertsma, Germany, 2001, 5 min), a wry tale of a bear who is put to work in a factory. Also included is Noise in My Backyard (Geoff Adams, USA, 2000, 22 min), a live-action film that incorporates animation to make its point about managing the ecology of one’s own backyard.

Cosponsored with the Department of Cinema and Photography, Cinema on the Edge, the Office of the Provost, the Office of Multicultural Affairs, and the Environmental Studies Program, Ithaca College.