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Dušan Vukotić (2)
Dušan Vukotić
Born in Bileća in 1927, Dušan Vukotić was an acclaimed European director of animated films, and one of the founding members of Zagreb Film. “He has won over fifty prizes and citations for his sixteen major films… created the national figure of Kićo… and with [fellow filmmakers] Aleksandar Marks, Boris Kolar and Zlatko Bourek, discovered the principles of ‘reduced animation’” (Z Is for Zagreb, 1972, by R. Holloway, p. 19). Vukotić’s Ersatz won the Best Animated Short Oscar in 1961, and he was the executive producer of the NFB and Zagreb Film’s omnibus work Man the Polluter (1972), to which he contributed the shorts History of Pollution (00:03:21–00:09:10) and Seesaw (00:12:17–00:13:09 [co-credited with Milan Blažeković]).
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MAN THE POLLUTERDon Arioli , Hugh Foulds , … 1972 52 minA film that enlarges on humanity’s capacity to foul its own nest, and to ignore it. Made by a joint team of Canadian and Croatian animation artists, the film transmits its warning with unflagging humour, imagination, movement and design. It consists of 14 shorts, as well as comical segments—played by actors—that introduce and serve as transitions between the animated pieces. The film comments on our responsibility, on a global scale, to conserve what is left of our vital resources and usable environment. -
Man: The PolluterDon Arioli , Hugh Foulds , … 1973 53 minThis feature-length animation is a richly illustrated cartoon film with an environmental message: how much longer can humans foul their own nest and ignore the consequences? Made by a joint team of Canadian and Yugoslav animation artists, the film transmits its warning with unflagging humour, imagination, movement and design. In between animated sequences, Dr. Fred H. Knelman, Professor of Science and Human Affairs at Montreal’s Concordia University, comments on the importance of what is shown and on what lies in store if more responsibility is not taken on a global scale to conserve what is left of our vital resources.
