is a strange way to describe a short film,
by director Pascal
Schelbli but that is how he describes his 2019 short film “The Beauty.” a cautionary reimagining of the world’s rampant plastic pollution, the arresting
animation reenvisions waste as lively sea life: a bubble-wrap fish puffs up, a
serpentine tire glides through the water, and an entire school of discarded
footwear swims in an undulating mass,
in a
statement, Schelbli describes the motivation behind the film, which won a
Student Academy Award in 2020:
"instead of
showing another mournful stomach full of plastic bags, I thought, ‘what if plastic
could be integrated into the sea life and nature solves the problem?’ The film
should take you on a journey, where all our feelings of guilt will disappear.
But in the end, we wake up and realize that we need to change something",
I love the way the pufferfish puffs up into bubble wrap, and the tyre track eel is superb,
to see the video in full size, have a look here, for more
of the Zürich-based director’s poignant animations, check out his Vimeo and Instagram, and you can watch a recent Last Week Tonight segment that dives further into
the crisis and explains how recycling isn’t the best solution, some one that agrees with me at last!
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