Gas Zappers (2007, 61 MB, 5:45 min)
“My friend Gemma advises me to create a video in order to design the game
characters and figure out how the game should go so I did it. The video is done and
I would love to show it to all of you guys but it all of a
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sudden got in the 2008 Sundance
Film Festival so unfortunately I cannot show you now due to the contract. Please wait a bit.
Synopsis
“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.”
By Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung. Music by Noah Vawter.
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