I forgot to paste this up before Christmas, well before Christmas as it happens, but life interveined. I had been thinking about the way the world works and how to comment on it. In particular the way some countries get away with atrocities because of the strangest attachments to people in power. In many ways opposition to the powerful can start with laughter, it will never overthrow them, but it is a useful starting point, laughing at their absurdity, realising there are chinks in their power that we can open by other means.
Behind it all is money, predominantly at the moment, money invested in oil, and the games the rich play to stay hold on to it and get it. But the power struggle seems to play out on more superficial levels, more personal and humanly relatable. Thats is where the cartoon level of investigation starts, starts not stays, so I thought I’d have a go.
I have always likes the work of South Park, the mix of cutout and drawn animation, so I though I would try something in that style. The bully of the west Donald Trump, throws his power around seemingly without opposition from governments that should know better. And yet two relationships he has, that with Putin in Russia, and Netanyahu in Israel, seen to refute that power, as if they have a hold over him.
So here it is a 3min animation “The Negotiator”: