There is something extraordinarily poetic about this short film by the World Food Programme that has done more to make me want to give something this Christmas then any other appeal I’ve seen.¬† As a father I just want to pick this little boy up in my arms and tell him that everything is going to be OK.¬† Except I would be a liar because it isn’t and it won’t be, not whilst there is a profit in keeping people impoverished, a profit in killing.
Don’t you think the LEAST we can do is give this boy some food.¬† Could that really, ever, possibly be asking too much?
Maybe this film is so powerful because it plays into our own feelings of being alone in the world, of struggling, of things greater than us that we cannot control, of the weight, of being lost like a child, universal feelings that have threatened to overwhelm us all at some point or another …
A duckrabbit hats off to WFP. Click on the picture and then press play.
To read duckrabbit’s thoughts on the use of black and white photography in Africa click here.
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