Animator: Bruno Bozzetto
Year: 1996
Genre: Animation
Region: Italy
Duration: 16 x 1'
Language: no commentary
A man and his baby stand next to planet earth. As the baby looks on from his pram, the man puts up factories, wells, power plants and motorways across the face of the globe. The noise of traffic and machinery builds to a crescendo as a dense cloud of pollution descends from the sky, blocking out the sun, until it reaches the man and he collapses. This is just one of the sharp, funny morality tales in a new collection of animated ‘spots’ from Italian animator Bruno Bozzetto designed to remind audiences that the earth’s resources are far from limited. Another shows the earth used as a dustbin, accomodatingly opening up to receive generations of waste. Once full, it is wrapped up with a bow and presented to a child - whereupon it explodes in his face.
