film
february 2007
9:30pm - 9:33pm
topic
Neglected Sky
Fri 16th | 9:30pm - 9:33pm
Main screen
produced by | John Cooney & Citizens for Global Solutions
John Cooney is a student at University California, Davis. He has been working with Flash technology since his junior year in high school but has never submitted a movie for a national contest before. He heard about the Citizens for Global Solutions Flash Contest through a friend. Cooney drew his inspiration for Neglected Sky from his class on science and society and from his personal concern for environmental issues. Over the course of a two week period, working for approximately three to four hours a day, Cooney produced Neglected Sky, which traces the ordeals of a little black stripe as it stops environmentally disastrous acts.
Cooney’s entry, which traces the ordeals of a little black stripe as it stops environmentally disastrous acts, was done with an imaginative craftiness that belied his age. In the film, the protagonist line comes down from space to save a penguin from a melting Antarctic iceberg, stop a stick-figured man from driving a pollution-emitting car, and successfully lobby the President to sign the Kyoto Protocols. In part, Cooney’s clip is inspirational because, as he notes, it shows that even the simplest of heroes (a black line) can have the courage and ambition to fight the world’s problems.