Posts Tagged ‘Brodner’
Gulf Balls
Friday, June 4th, 2010
Here’s our second short for PBS’ Need to Know: “Oil Painting”, based on new revelations about the Minerals Management Agency, charged with regulating drilling enterprises, as well as collecting royalties.
It turns out the Industry AND the Agency were pretty tightly connected. So when one goes down, so does the other.
The MMS is part of the Interior Department so our little inspector is seen coming out of the White House. The “cozy” culture between Government and Oil has been going on as far back as the ’90s. It reached its fullest expression under Bush/Cheney when regs were a joke and Industry was always right. This didn’t really change under Obama.
Here our little regulator sails up to the rig, about to be seduced. It was a true romance. Gifts were exchanged; friendships of an extreme nature blossomed (or bloomed). The Culture of Oil meant that all these folks thought of themselves as part of the same group. “We’re all oil”, one of them said. Even now we are relying on BP, the criminals in the case, to save the gulf!
So finally, the royalties are paid, but by the gulf, by the animals and by the people.
Read more HERE
Directed by Gail Levin, Animation by Asterisk, Ben Shapiro, DP.
Great thanks to Tom Casciato, Shelley Lewis, Stephen Segaller, producers, NTK.
Tags: BP, Brodner, Disaster, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf Spill, Need to Know, Oil, Oil Rig
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Need to Know
Friday, May 14th, 2010
Tonight marks our first contribution to Need to Know, PBS’ new Friday night newsmagazine. We are doing short films which combine narrative, live art and animation.
This week we contemplate Hamid Karzai.
8:30 tonight in the East (check locals) and 6PM on Sunday.
Tags: Afghanistan, Brodner, Karzai, Obama Afghanistan, war in Afghanistan
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Snowball Warming
Friday, February 12th, 2010
Walking through beautiful Inwood Park the other day, in the middle of our picturesque snowstorm, I suddenly heard a familiar voice. It was a snowman in the image of (major Global Warming denier) Senator James Inhofe . “It’s all bunk, Sonny.”, he said. “It’s cold, right? There’s all this snow, right? What are ya, blind?.” Just then Shoshana the Rescue Dog appeared on the scene. “Well, it sure feels warmer.”, he mumbled. ” Don’t know what to think now.”
Tags: Brodner, global warming, Inhofe, Snow, snow storm
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The Making of a Liberal
Sunday, January 31st, 2010
Jimmy O’Keeffe political prankster, who took himself to be the conservative answer to Michael Moore, Borat, Jon Stewart, finds himself and his network of conservo-kids (funded by the Scaifes and Coors) ready for trial and then the Slammer for illegally entering a senator’s office.
Here he is on his first day in the Pen, arriving in his Super Fly suit. From here I’d say it doesn’t look good for Jimmy. Except perhaps if a Scaife or two can keep him company.
Tags: Brodner, caricature, cartoon, Coors, GOP, Landrieu, O'Keeffe, politics, prank, pranks, Scaife
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