Ukrainian stop-motion cartoon highlights problem of plastic pollution

Record ID: 1445515

  • Title: Ukrainian stop-motion cartoon highlights problem of plastic pollution
  • Date: 2nd December 2019
  • Summary: KIEV, UKRAINE (NOVEMBER 26, 2019) (REUTERS) CARTOON SET MADE OF TOOTHBRUSHES WITH SIGN READING (English): "PLASTIKWOOD" TOOTHBRUSH WITH PANDA DECORATION ON HANDLE TOOTHBRUSHES IN SET DIRECTOR OF 'WRAPPED IN PLASTIC' CARTOON AND FOUNDER OF 'PLASTIKWOOD ANIMATIONS' PRODUCTION, VLADI YUDI, SPEAKING WHILE STANDING NEXT TO SET PLASTIC STRAWS ARRANGED AS PALM TREE (SOUNDBITE) (English) DIRECTOR OF 'WRAPPED IN PLASTIC' CARTOON AND FOUNDER OF 'PLASTIKWOOD ANIMATIONS' PRODUCTION, VLADI YUDI, SAYING: "Hollywood kind of gives people the illusion that meaning of the life is luxury life, is celebrity life, is wealth. And we show... Plastikwood is like an irony on this. We show that the result of this mindset, which we get from Hollywood, is piles of garbage, it's like garbage is everywhere."
  • Embargoed: 16th December 2019 10:18
  • Keywords: director Vladi Yudi education garbage eco-friendly Wrapped in Plastic Ukraine plastic cartoon waste environment
  • Location: KIEV, UKRAINE
  • City: KIEV, UKRAINE
  • Country: Ukraine
  • Topics: Environment
  • Reuters ID: LVA001B8A9OWP
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Ukrainian film director Vladi Yudi has found a creative way to dispose of plastic waste while highlighting the problems it brings.
    He has used recyclable and non-recyclable garbage to create a set for a horror cartoon titled 'Wrapped in Plastic', in which the main character 'Garbie' - a combination of Barbie and garbage - lives in a plastic town and battles plastic monsters.
    Yudi's idea was to convey a serious environmental message through entertainment and make people aware of what he calls the 'plastic apocalypse', when nature becomes overrun with plastic.
    The cartoon is full of references to the real world, such as the 'Plastikwood' sign on a hill made of dozens of non-recyclable toothbrushes with a pink sunset in the background made of plastic bags.
    According to Yudi, who used to work in the fashion industry, Hollywood and Barbie dolls symbolise a consumerist lifestyle which eventually leads to environmental pollution.
    In the film's story, Garbie gets lost in a plastic forest where everything, from the vegetation to the animals, is made of plastic of different shapes and forms.
    What started as a sweet dream for the heroine turns into a growing nightmare as she is attacked by the forest's creepy plastic inhabitants.
    Visitors can also now explore a human-scale version of Garbie's world built with yet more trash, allowing Yudi's audience to experience all the twists and dangers of the cartoon plot.
    Exhibition visitor Oleksandra Savchenko said it offered a vision into a possible future "if we keep doing everything the way we did before".
    After its premiere in a Kiev cinema, 'Wrapped in Plastic' will travel abroad for foreign film festivals. Yudi says he also wants to keep telling Garbie's story in a cartoon series.
    (Production: Sergiy Karazy, Margaryta Chornokondratenko)
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