Harmony

Jim Trainor | USA | 2005 | 12' |

| IFFR 2007

A masculine God bestows upon animals the gift of self-awareness, which they promptly use to express guilt for their behaviour. This moral breakthrough is somewhat undermined by the appearance of humans, whose invention of magical belief systems degrades the whole of nature.

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