Turtle Training
8m · USA
Directed by Cormac Hawken McCarthy
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic, humorous
A wildlife biologist stands in front of a captive audience of construction workers and tries to explain why one endangered turtle is worth slowing the bulldozers. Bureaucracy meets ecology meets blank stares.
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Environmental crisis filtered through HR-mandated PowerPoint — that's a setup with teeth. The endangered species movie nobody's making.
A mandatory corporate training video reframed as the actual front line of the extinction crisis is a sharp framing device, and the bureaucratic-civic comedy at eight minutes is the right size. Office Space meets herpetology — a small, particular pleasure.
Mandatory onsite corporate training as the actual front line of the extinction crisis is a sneaky premise — eight minutes of a wildlife biologist losing the room to construction-worker blank stares could be quietly devastating or just a sketch.