The world is full of war and where can we hope to escape it? Home? - Certainly not by a stretch of this little computer animation. A lone kidney bean is being given the rough treatment by two much larger, bullying lima beans. In a number of fancy manoeuvres the kidney bean tricks the bullying two into believing they’ve killed him. When the kidney bean reaches his kin a battle of revenge is planned. The plan is foiled once ensconced in battle by the true ruler - he/she who cooks beans in the kitchen. The battle scenes are stylistically similar to and remniscent of the battle scenes in the paintings of Australian artist, John Bracks, where he used pencils and decks of cards symbolically and as structural elements to recreate battle scenes. No dialogue, sound effects only.
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In ACMI's collection
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
315249
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Motion pictures - Sound effects
Amateur & Student Films → Student films - Australia
Animation → Animated films - Australia
Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → War games
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Violence
Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Bullying
Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Violence
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Bullying
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Violence
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)