EMMETT
A short animated film about migration
– and the migration of fear itself
Awards
Creative Conscience Grand Prize (2025)
MODE Informational/Persuasive Winner (2025)
Skills
Animation
Research
Writing
Sound Design
Tools
After Effects, Cinema 4D, Audition
White populations are, often reflexively, considered less threatening in Western countries today. Many from Western populations hold an exclusionist attitude towards immigration and see their privileges as a birthright. Only when applied to others is it underhandedly acknowledged as the privilege that it is.
This type of exclusionist behaviour and adjacent fear of ‘other’ has persisted for so long, and cycled through so many different minority groups, that it has almost certainly been suffered by the very same 'natives' whose values they are now trying to preserve.
The minority groups that are persecuted or targeted are arbitrary and change over time. Over that time, generation-by-generation, our collective memory ceases to remember that, perhaps, our own great grandparents were fighting people like ourselves for the right to live in peace in the same countries we now call our own.
By focusing predominantly on ‘white’ minority groups that have been culturally excluded within Western countries in recent history –– the same groups that have assimilated into the 'majority' population today –– and by tying in the persecution they suffered with the experience of minorities and immigrants today, such that the parallels are unavoidable, this animated short hopes to pull the majority populations into the same ‘other’ category present day immigrants exist in, and perhaps, plant a seed for thought.