Synopsis
Bella and Vipulan are 16 years old, a generation convinced that their future is being threatened. Climate change, the sixth mass extinction of species… within fifty years, their world could become uninhabitable. They may warn, but nothing really changes. So they decide to go to the source of the problem: our relationship with the living world.
A word from Tënk
Animal is part of an already well-established filmic genre that denounces environmental devastation through shocking images. In fact, it could have been titled "The Human Effect" since it investigates the anthropic part of this damage, in several countries.
But does this exposure to images increase or kills our sensitivity to the many problems? Sometimes, I am under the impression that we have developed solid bumpers to the ecological dramas, that we have grown insensitivities that are difficult to debunk and, above all, that we have developed allergies to the understanding of complex phenomena.
It seemed to me that Animal "challenged" the film Composing Worlds with this observation of one of the two young protagonists of 16 years old who guides the film: "Understanding is just as important as acting. We can't act if we don't understand the problem. Because we might do it at the wrong time and in the wrong place.
Watch Animal first and track down this crisis of sensitivity that Baptiste Morizot (philosopher and protagonist) understands as an impoverishment of all that we can feel, perceive, and above all understand about our relationships with living things. But how can we become more sensitive in order to recompose more viable worlds for animals, plants and humans?
Sylvie Lapointe
Filmmaker
