HAR: Enviromental Hygiene

  • Elaine Yee Lam Wong
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Ponyo. Dir. Hayao Miyazaki. Toho. 2008.
Ponyo. Dir. Hayao Miyazaki. Toho. 2008. 150 150 Elaine Yee Lam Wong

‘What? She is captured by a boy? This is very bad. Is it already dead?’ yells Ponyo’s father Fujimoto when realising his precious daughter is being kept as a pet…

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  • Sarah Brecknell
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Ratatouille. Dir. Brad Bird. Buena Vista Pictures Distribution. 2007.
Ratatouille. Dir. Brad Bird. Buena Vista Pictures Distribution. 2007. 150 150 Sarah Brecknell

Brad Bird’s Ratatouille is a film in which the human community collides with that of the rats, through Remy the rat’s aspiration to be a cook for humans despite his status as…

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  • Sarah Brecknell
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American Beauty. Dir. Sam Mendes. DreamWorks Pictures. 1999.
American Beauty. Dir. Sam Mendes. DreamWorks Pictures. 1999. 150 150 Sarah Brecknell

Despite its iconic lusty red petals, Sam Mendes’ American Beauty is abundant with other striking images – one of which is a dead bird, lying on the grass of the school grounds,…

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  • Jenny Marshall
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Ratatouille. Dir. Brad Bird. Buena Vista Pictures. 2007.
Ratatouille. Dir. Brad Bird. Buena Vista Pictures. 2007. 150 150 Jenny Marshall

In the Ratatouille scene where Remy and Emile enter an old woman’s house, questions of animal invasion into human spaces are raised. The woman’s reaction is to kill the trespassing rats; a…

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  • Rachel Buttery
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Ratatouille. Dir. Brad Bird . Walt Disney Pictures . 2007.
Ratatouille. Dir. Brad Bird . Walt Disney Pictures . 2007. 150 150 Rachel Buttery

Ratatouille’s exploration of human cruelty towards rats is encapsulated in the scene where an old lady discovers that her home is infested by rats.   The old lady is introduced…

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Ratatouille. Dir. Brad Bird . Walt Disney Pictures . 2007.
Ratatouille. Dir. Brad Bird . Walt Disney Pictures . 2007. 150 150 Rachel Buttery

Ratatouille’s exploration of human cruelty towards rats is encapsulated in the scene where an old lady discovers that her home is infested by rats.   The old lady is introduced…

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  • Christopher Dobelmann
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Pom Poko. Dir. Isao Takahata. Studio Ghibli. 1994.
Pom Poko. Dir. Isao Takahata. Studio Ghibli. 1994. 150 150 Christopher Dobelmann

Pom Poko. Dir. Isao Takahata. Studio Ghibli. 1994 Pom Poko (Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko) is written and directed by Isao Takahata, a co-founder of Studio Ghibli which animated and published…

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  • Laura Lee
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Ratatouille. Dir. Brad Bird and Jan Pinkava. Buena Vista Pictures Distribution. 2007.
Ratatouille. Dir. Brad Bird and Jan Pinkava. Buena Vista Pictures Distribution. 2007. 150 150 Laura Lee

Brad Bird and Jan Pinkava’s 2007 animated family film Ratatouille follows the journey of a rat named Remy who has a dream of becoming a chef.[1] Like most family films, Ratatouille has an…

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  • Elizabeth Cherry
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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Dir. Hayao Miyazaki. Studio Ghibli. 1984.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Dir. Hayao Miyazaki. Studio Ghibli. 1984. 150 150 Elizabeth Cherry

Hayao Miyazaki’s 1984 film ‘Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind’ follows the adventures of a young princess named Nausicaä who is part of one of the last tribes of…

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Stalker. Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky. Mosfilm. 1979.
Stalker. Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky. Mosfilm. 1979. 150 150 Isaac Whiting

Andrei Tarkovsky’s science-fiction film, Stalker (1979), is marked by depression, desolation and barren wastelands.[1] The film’s loose narrative follows three men into The Zone, a disturbingly conscious and supernatural area of nuclear disaster.…

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