HAR: Enviromental Hygiene

  • Alice Connolly
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Twelve Monkeys. Dir. Terry Gilliam. Universal Pictures . 1996.
Twelve Monkeys. Dir. Terry Gilliam. Universal Pictures . 1996. 150 150 Alice Connolly

Do you want a second chance, Cole?” In other words – Do you want your body experimented upon to benefit our research again, Cole? The film cuts to a scene…

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Pom Poko. Dir. Isao Takahata. Toho. 1994.
Pom Poko. Dir. Isao Takahata. Toho. 1994. 150 150 Emerald Kenny

Pom Poko[1] is a film that follows the tanuki of Tama Hills trying to halt development of their woodland through their folkloric transformation powers. In terms of how it shows…

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  • Emma Bragg
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Over the Hedge. Dir. Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick. DreamWorks. 2006.
Over the Hedge. Dir. Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick. DreamWorks. 2006. 150 150 Emma Bragg

After Verne, an anxious turtle, breaks through the boundary of the manicured hedge he enters a pristine garden on the periphery of a middle class suburbia. A far cry from…

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  • Callum Howkins
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Baraka. Dir. Ron Frike. The Samuel Goldwyn Company. 1992.
Baraka. Dir. Ron Frike. The Samuel Goldwyn Company. 1992. 150 150 Callum Howkins

Ron Fricke’s 1992 documentary film Baraka highlights the darker side of human-animal relations through a sequence comparing two very similar visual images. One scene depicts a crowded subway while another shows new-born…

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  • Barney Waller
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Ratatouille. Dir. Brad Bird. Pixar. 2007.
Ratatouille. Dir. Brad Bird. Pixar. 2007. 150 150 Barney Waller

Within Ratatouille, the scene in which Remy figures out that he is able to control Linguini, Brad Bird confounds expectations through undermining the stereotype about the animality of rats, and using…

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  • Harriet Brodie
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Ratatouille. Dir. Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava. Pixar. 2007.
Ratatouille. Dir. Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava. Pixar. 2007. 150 150 Harriet Brodie

Brad Bird’s Ratatotuille challenges how we stereotypically perceive rats through the depiction of the protagonist, Remy. The narrative shows Remy struggling with finding acceptance in human society, despite the exceptional cooking talents…

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  • Joseph Nixon
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Ratatouille. Dir. Brad Bird. Buena Vista Pictures. 2007.
Ratatouille. Dir. Brad Bird. Buena Vista Pictures. 2007. 150 150 Joseph Nixon

Brad Bird’s 2007 computer-animated film Ratatouille uses its mode as animation to estab­lish an alternate logic to the real world, enabling communication between humans and animals. The turning point that establishes this…

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  • Laura Bell
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Ratatouille . Dir. Brad Bird and Jan Pinkava . Walt Disney Pictures. 2007.
Ratatouille . Dir. Brad Bird and Jan Pinkava . Walt Disney Pictures. 2007. 150 150 Laura Bell

The final shot of Ratatouille, the image of a rat in the restaurant sign, symbolises the fantasy of the rat and human worlds crossing, and the idealisation of a rat chef…

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Kes. Dir. Ken Loach. Woodfall Films. 1969.
Kes. Dir. Ken Loach. Woodfall Films. 1969. 150 150 Max Smith

Kes (dir. Ken Loach, 1969) depicts working class Billy using his kestrel training as a means of escaping the grim reality of life in the industrial north, while the juxtaposition of…

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  • Laura Bell
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Shaun the Sheep The Movie. Dir. Mark Burton and Richard Starzak. Studiocanal. 2015.
Shaun the Sheep The Movie. Dir. Mark Burton and Richard Starzak. Studiocanal. 2015. 150 150 Laura Bell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQeI4i2Nzw8&feature=emb_title Restaurant scene Starzak and Burton challenge our perceptions of human and animal intelligence in Shaun the Sheep The Movie. Aardman excel in casting the animals as intelligent and exasperated by…

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