It's a short animation movie, an amuse-bouche, that's very funny but carried along with it a warning. See, these two piles of rocks are sitting on top of a hill speaking to one another, turning their heads and moving their limbs with rolling clacks of sound.
One of them thoughtfully peels the lichens off the other, and tells him (they're both males) that he hates to say it but you've got moss on your head again.
Time passes swiftly on this hilltop. They watch a village grow in the valley beneath them. They wonder what the hell is going on as these wooden houses pop up and paths run around through the grass. The smaller of the rocks puzzles over an almost round piece of inanimate stone and twirls it around on its axis. When a human being passes by, a wheel falls from his cart, and the cursing cart hauler must change it. The small pile undergoes an "Aha Erlebnis" and realizes that this is a wheel ("rad").
But then rime rushes by. The two piles remain the same but a huge metropolis springs up around them. Cars whip along an Autobahn and a monstrous TV screen announces "Built To Last." Poof. It doesn't last. It turns into dust and the TV collapses with a plop. The rocks remain as they were and the lichens and moss grow back. I won't go on about the message.
It's a comic view of civilizations, and it's only eight minutes long.
One of them thoughtfully peels the lichens off the other, and tells him (they're both males) that he hates to say it but you've got moss on your head again.
Time passes swiftly on this hilltop. They watch a village grow in the valley beneath them. They wonder what the hell is going on as these wooden houses pop up and paths run around through the grass. The smaller of the rocks puzzles over an almost round piece of inanimate stone and twirls it around on its axis. When a human being passes by, a wheel falls from his cart, and the cursing cart hauler must change it. The small pile undergoes an "Aha Erlebnis" and realizes that this is a wheel ("rad").
But then rime rushes by. The two piles remain the same but a huge metropolis springs up around them. Cars whip along an Autobahn and a monstrous TV screen announces "Built To Last." Poof. It doesn't last. It turns into dust and the TV collapses with a plop. The rocks remain as they were and the lichens and moss grow back. I won't go on about the message.
It's a comic view of civilizations, and it's only eight minutes long.