Released: 2008 | 4:39min | traditional animation (pencil, paper, computer)
“Furcoat” is my own favorite animation-short. Realized thanks to the hard work of a team of 11 hard working people in Budapest (HU).
Dekker: “Fur and cruelty are inseperably connected, and I want to encourage people to realize the impact it has on so many lives of sentient beings. When I see a furcoat: which is infact a coat made of dead, sewn-together animals, it makes my stumach turn and my heart skip a beat…”
Some say that climate change is the biggest problem of our generation. Denying climate change is the 21th century equivalent of saying the earth is flat. A changing climate is obviously our greatest threat: without a livable planet, there’s no human life possible and human problems are irrelevant. But what if we look at this problem a little different, a little less anthropocentric? What if the climate heating up is not a problem, but a cure to heal the planet’s biggest problem: human life. What if the planet is sweating out this threat to secure the planet’s existence itself? The earth is trying to get rid of us like a boiling frog. Noah’s ark turned Titanic, and half of us don’t even (want to) know or care.