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Money by Bruce Petty
Bruce Petty"The aim is to be alarming, funny and correct at the same time. Of course, it’s pretty hard to alarm now as we are globally connected to the world’s maddest events".
Bruce Petty has found expression as a satirical cartoonist by publishing in prestigious newspapers and magazines such as the English Punch and the American New Yorker. At home in Australia he reinforced his fame for social commentary in the pages of the Mirror, the Australian, and the Age, and in publications like The Petty Age and The Penguin Petty.
Petty has taken his humour and anti-conformist political views from the newspapers and brought them to the screen, creating such animated classics as Australian History (1970), Marx (1981), the Academy Award winning Leisure (1977), and now Money (1998), made for the AFC/SBS series of animated films, ‘Swimming Outside The Flags’.
"Governments will always get it wrong - they are trying to please people who generate wealth and people who haven’t any. We draw them getting it wrong."
Money
The film establishes the notion of money as a ‘swapping tube’. A high speed history of money follows - from the primitive concept of swapping goods, to money as a value in itself, Capitalism, Industrialisation, and the world-shattering efforts of the wealthy trying to make a lot of it and keep it legal at the same time. Crashes and booms, wars and the rise and fall of the awesome socialist experiments unfold. The tube progresses to the current electronic abstraction of money, and its consequences.
Money is Petty’s first digital film, and was made using Flash 3 software on a G3 Mac, drawing directly on a tablet.
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MONEY.
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