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    The document summarizes an article about Bruce Petty, an Australian political cartoonist and filmmaker. His new film "Global Haywire" uses animation and interviews to explore big questions about the modern world, such as the causes of ongoing wars and divisions between East and West. Petty created the character Vince, a 15th century artist who builds a flying machine, to represent humanity's ability to create both wisdom and technology as well as the inequalities that can lead to anarchy. The film interweaves this fictional story with interviews of intellectuals who provide historical perspectives on how the world reached its current state.

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    PEOPLE

    Harnessing art to unravel the mayhem of the modern world


    By Lauren Farrow
    us. History is really right now. They
    We have the ability to produce are still involved with it. It’s not an
    infinite wisdom, breathtaking art abstraction or story,” Bruce said.
    and incredible technology, so why, Global Haywire is one of many
    Bruce Petty wonders, is the world films that Bruce has created, includ-
    falling apart? ing Leisure, which won him an Oscar
    In his film Global Haywire, to be in 1976.
    released this month, Bruce asks big Bruce started out in graphic de-
    questions about the modern world – sign in England, (despite, he admits,
    why are we always at war and where not being able to draw), but used hu-
    did the divisions between east and mour to get published in The New
    west come from? Yorker, Punch and Esquire.
    To explore these conundrums the Since then, politicians have been
    Birchgrove resident and prominent the focus of his work in The Age and
    political cartoonist has traded in The Australian.
    the blank page for the big screen in For Bruce, part of the aim of his
    a combination of animation, inter- cartoons and Global Haywire is to
    views and story telling. Writer, director and animator of ‘Global Haywire’, Bruce Petty, with a frame of spark debate among his audience.
    “I wanted to try to work out how the film, which will be released on April 10. Image courtesy Hopscotch films. And although he admits he often
    we got to the state we have globally. paints a bleak picture, there is hope.
    How we have countries which are amazing freedom flying machine. Interwoven within this fictional “I was interviewing students in
    rich and billions of people who are Armed with “testosterone and a story are interviews with intellectu- Lebanon and England for the film
    disadvantaged,” Bruce said. screwdriver” he creates two decks, als such as Robert Fisk, Gore Vidal, and these kids were coming out and
    He created the character Vince, only to find the inequalities between Tariq Ali and Noam Chomsky. saying, ‘I think that we can do better
    a 15th century artist who builds an the two create anarchy. “History to them is different to than this‘, and I think they will.”

    26 Village Voice Balmain April

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