Gas Zappers

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directed by Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung
http://www.TinKin.com

music by Noah Vawter
http://web.media.mit.edu/~nvawter/

running time 00:05:45

major funding provided by Tribeca Film Institute/ Renew Media

2007

More info at http://www.GASZAPPERS.com

Gas Zappers is a short animation about climate change. The main character, the ironically overappropriated and fuzzy polar bear, abruptly finds itself in a position to save its home living environment through dextrous maneuvers in an Al-e Gore-ical world. The idiom of the video game is exploited to challenge and illuminate the simplistic notion of quick fixes to environmental issues. Aesthetically, graphical and musical styles from the glory days of video games conjure the triumph and delight of virtual success.

As the bear progresses with celebrity companions through different climate change scenarios such as Venice underwater, confrontations with bulldozers, and anthropomorphized killer oil derricks, it narrowly succeeds each time thanks to its renewable energy defenses. A narrative unfolds that, like the artists previous works, waggishly interrogates the spectacular mode of ecological policy.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• global warming
• co2
• pollution
• animation
• Al Gore
• Bush
• Kyoto Protocol
• Climate change
• carbon dioxide
• greenhouse gas
• sundance
• polar bear
• renewable energy

[MissyJustMissy]

i love this. its creative and if not for the new info on the dirty electricity that the twirly bulbs emit that is really messing up the frailer peoples health, its all solid info. i love Maodonalds presentations. keep it up, buddy. you have unique vision.

[Chippawa66]

yeah i agree it is the video i was given to do my research paper on. lucky me huh?

[pyramidsoldier123]

My textbook for my visual studies class talked about this vid, so figured I'd look it up. That's got to be the worst vid I've seen on youtube in years...