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Sex, music and monoculture – a hallucinatory animated history of the modern banana
In her short, whimsical animation Amarillo, the Spanish filmmaker Ana Pérez López stitches together a series anecdotes and ruminations on the banana to explore the modern history of this exceptionally popular fruit. The effect is at once informative and ephemeral – a playful reflection on the peculiarities of taste, capitalism and culture.
Video by Ana Pérez López
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Meaning and the good life
Why Orwell urged his readers to celebrate the spring, cynics be damned
11 minutes
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History
Hags, seductresses, feminist icons – how gender dynamics manifest in witches
13 minutes
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Earth science and climate
Images carved into film form a haunting elegy for a disappearing slice of Earth
3 minutes
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Animals and humans
Join seabirds as they migrate, encountering human communities along the way
13 minutes
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Food and drink
The passage of time is a peculiar thing in a 24-hour diner
14 minutes
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Biology
‘Save the parasites’ may not be a popular rallying cry – but it could be a vital one
11 minutes
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Evolution
The many ways a lizard tongue sticks, grasps, pinches and plops – in slo-mo
6 minutes
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Fairness and equality
‘To my old master’ – a freed slave answers the request to return to his old plantation
7 minutes
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Biology
Starlings swoosh like brushstrokes across the sky in this dazzling short
3 minutes