“My 80 year old Grandparents are putting out spot fires in their backyard. My Aunties & Uncle have evacuated. My cousins with a 3 day old bub have their bags packed ready to flee, potentially to our lounge room. No wonder Australia is angry: it has a right to be.”
Australian director, Darcy Prendergast, echoed the sentiment of most Australians about the current bushfires in a tweet. He is not the only Australian to write about their personal experience of the bushfires, but Prendergast has done more. He worked for seven weeks to create an animated film, narrated by a child, that says what Australians are feeling. It says that we’re frustrated with the government’s inaction and its attitude to climate change, its refusal to admit that our future is in peril, its ignoring the people it is meant to serve.
“Overcome with helplessness, the only real way I could process the #australianbushfires was through the creation of a short animated film,” he tweeted.
Prendergast, is the founder of Melbourne production company, Oh Yeah Wow.
His film ends with this message:
So rally together
Love strong and rage stronger
So life on this planet
Can last sometime longer
This is the film: