This is just a preview — there’s a 20 minute short film hitting the movie festival circuit any time now. I want to see the whole thing.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
This is just a preview — there’s a 20 minute short film hitting the movie festival circuit any time now. I want to see the whole thing.
Brilliant and poignant.
I really loved it. And I don’t do animation much. The style grated on me a bit when it first changed from sepia b/c I’m not used to modern anime conventions (and b/c I love sepia), but my reluctance was solidly overcome by a great little film.
I’m not sure how I feel about the narration at the end. More words earlier or no words at all might have been better, from my perspective, but it’s still a great film.
What Inaji said. The many unintended (well, mostly) consequences of mankind’s intrusion into the habitats of Earth’s indigenous wildlife.
Now I’m depressed.
Cheer up Rich! Just a little. For although many species were tragically lost from Lord Howe Island the film’s subject, the Lord Howe Island stick insect, lives on. A tiny population of just a few individuals was found clinging to a single bush growing on Ball’s Pyramid, a rocky islet near Lord Howe. Ball’s Pyramid actually features in the film – its in the background of the British explorer ship scene – before they make landfall on Lord Howe.
These precious few individuals have been taken into captivity and are breeding prolifically, so much so there are now plans to re-introduce the insect to the main island – but they’ll have to get rid of all the rats first.
A nice good news story in an otherwise very depressing subject.
I’m a little disappointed with the visual metaphor of the ‘souls’ of the extinct animals drifting away, because I know my Christian friends are going to look at that and say, ‘those animals still exist with God, and he can restore them after the rapture.’
Sigh.