This short is a great surprise, a short film made by students of a German Animation School, he Filmakadema ie Baden-Württemberg.
The film starts as another cute story for children, one might think: A family of mini-bears are gathering their food with great difficulty in their world forest. They find an egg that hatcheS and a luminous powerful mercury bird comes out; the bird flies high and collects the food for them. From there, the story turns darker and the cute bears become greedier, more tyrannical and nasty by the second, forcing the bird to work despite is leaking mercury and being on the verge of exhaustion.
The film is very pleasant to the eye, but also visually very simple. However, it uses that simplicity to convey, through symbolic message, a depiction of the environmental issues of our modern world -- the overuse of the natural sources, the destruction of the environment, the senseless accumulation of resources based on greediness and not on need, the exploitation of workers, and the dumping of toxic chemicals, like mercury, into the environment, contaminating for centuries, fauna, flora and the seas.
The more that times passes, the more uncomfortable the viewer feels with the flights of the mercury bird in this short film.
The film starts as another cute story for children, one might think: A family of mini-bears are gathering their food with great difficulty in their world forest. They find an egg that hatcheS and a luminous powerful mercury bird comes out; the bird flies high and collects the food for them. From there, the story turns darker and the cute bears become greedier, more tyrannical and nasty by the second, forcing the bird to work despite is leaking mercury and being on the verge of exhaustion.
The film is very pleasant to the eye, but also visually very simple. However, it uses that simplicity to convey, through symbolic message, a depiction of the environmental issues of our modern world -- the overuse of the natural sources, the destruction of the environment, the senseless accumulation of resources based on greediness and not on need, the exploitation of workers, and the dumping of toxic chemicals, like mercury, into the environment, contaminating for centuries, fauna, flora and the seas.
The more that times passes, the more uncomfortable the viewer feels with the flights of the mercury bird in this short film.
