Burning
Personal Project
Burning is a personal project made during the Fall 2020 Mentorship Session from MographMentor.
The idea of the project was to show the reality of the environment in Brazil amid a government that does little to preserve it. In the last 4 years, since the election of Jair Bolsonaro as president, Brazil has suffered its heaviest blow on sustainability issues with budget cuts in the areas of preventing and combating deforestation and environmental disasters, the appointment of ministers who defend the flexibility of environmental laws, favoring the exploitation of demarcated areas and legitimizing the murder of environmental defenders.
During the Bolsonaro government, we had the biggest fire in the history of the Pantanal, the biggest oil spill disaster on the coast, in addition to the uncontrolled growth of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, while the president blames the media for sensationalism and opponents alongside the NGOs for forging false evidence to weaken his government
initial styleframes:The narrative is guided by speeches by the president and government officials during testimonies at congresses or interviews.
The first idea was to make a beautifully illustrated film. But the colorful and vivid illustration wasn’t representing the government the way it should, so as the idea progressed, the illustrations started to lose color, and the brush was replaced with charcoal and oil paint, representing the burned trees and the oil spilled during Bolsonaro’s government
the film
final styleframes:did you know?
- Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s president, blamed Leo DiCaprio for funding the criminal wildfires in the Amazon rainforest.
- Environment Minister Ricardo Salles, manifested his intention to take advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic to "approve regulatory and simplification infralegal reforms" in the environment, meaning that he wants a mass dismantling of regulations.
- Jair Bolsonaro said that indigenous tribes living in protected areas are occupying potential mining areas.
- Before being appointed as Environment Minister, Ricardo Salles was condemned for tampering maps of protected areas.
- Ricardo Galvão, director of a brazilian government agency that monitors the Amazon, was fired after releasing a report showing that deforestation in the Amazon had increased over the previous year.
- The same Ricardo Salles along with Jair Bolsonaro refused to collect an oil spilled across 9 states and 62 cities across brazilian coast, because the oil was “very likely” from Venezuela, so it was their obligation to repair the damage.
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