“Super duper supermen!”
Posted: 11/04/2010 Filed under: Personal, Video | Tags: animation, children, conflict, disney, music, propaganda Leave a comment »A few weeks ago, I downloaded a job-lot of kiddies’ songs from Amazon to keep my babies amused. Uncle Larry unearthed rather an incongruous gem among them – Spike Jones‘ Der Fuehrer’s Face. Despite the initial WTF, and my kids’ indifference to the track, I find myself unable to get this particular – and most brilliantly mocking – verse out of my head:
Is we not the supermen?
Aryan pure supermen?
Ja we is the supermen
Super duper supermen!
It’s a version of the Oliver Wallace song from Disney’s 1943 Donald Duck anti-Nazi (or perhaps anti-Nutzi) short, which I post here for your enjoyment:
Animated film shows Gaza to be a “Closed Zone”
Posted: 05/03/2009 Filed under: Human rights, Video, Work | Tags: animation, discrimination, gaza, gisha, Hub Blog, humanitarian, israel, palestine, WITNESS Leave a comment »[Originally published here on the WITNESS Hub blog.]
There’s an interesting post over at GV, where Maya Norton scours the Israeli blogosphere for reactions to “Closed Zone”, a new 90-second film about the closed border around Gaza:
Read Maya’s post here – and read more about the film, and Gisha, the organisation that made it, here.
Iran: A Nation of Bloggers
Posted: 16/12/2008 Filed under: Human rights, Video, Work | Tags: animation, blogging, canada, freedom of expression, Hub Blog, iran, WITNESS Leave a comment »[Originally published here on the WITNESS Hub Blog.]
The Al Jazeera English show The Listening Post has just rolled a brilliant animation over its closing credits. Put together by 4 students at the Vancouver Film School, it’s called “Iran: A Nation of Bloggers”, and it’s got pace, energy and style (not unlike Avaaz’s “Clash of Civilisations” piece from last year), as well as weaving in a range of topics quite neatly, in 100 seconds (not including the credits…):
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