Large Fierce Mammal

“About 15 years ago a multinational company purchased an old cement plant near my place and started to incinerate dangerous waste. One day, when the smell of burning tires and plastic was particularly bad, I joined a local group of ecological activists.

“We fought the cement plant and corrupt government officials for many years and we actually won, but it made us very unpopular among the local people and we faced all kinds of threats on a daily basis.

“One night I had a nightmare; I was in a very dark place in the middle of a large crowd of people. I noticed they couldn’t move because they had roots instead of legs growing into the ground.

“All of them were in some kind of catatonic sleep and I desperately tried to wake them up and tell them something. All of a sudden they opened their eyes and started yelling. Then I woke up, all sweaty.

“I just couldn’t get those images out of my head and I decided that I would deal with them by using them in an animated film.”

So Slovenian animator/illustrator Dusan Kastelic describes his inspiration for the film that is tonight’s Dark Sentiment.

Released in 2018, this award winning film tells the story of a box, “… full of miserable creatures. One of them doesn’t belong there. He’s thinking outside the box…”

My advice for tonight’s tipple will be to stick with something that doesn’t leave you with a headache. Welcome to The Box.