While the world looks to the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (Cop 26) for immediate actions and solutions aimed at safeguarding the environmental decline of the planet, the impact of climate change on the Earth (especially from the animal point of view) is shown by vivid moving illustrations of the animated short "Who wants to live forever", which flow in all their raw poetry to the notes of the immortal Queen song.
The choral work - conceived and directed by the IED Milano Professor Matteo Valenti and donated to Brian May’s Save Me Trust - is composed by several young authors from all corners of the Earth and was screened on November 1st, in Glasgow, in front of global authorities of the largest countries in the world.
Only 6 universities and academies from all over the world were involved, each one representing a “chapter” of the story: IED is the school involved for Europe, with the Illustration and Animation Alumni Lorenzo Barbolini and Kizito Schimera, who worked with tutors Riccardo Galiberti, Patrizia Russo and Rachele Santini making the project their final thesis, discussed in 2020.
The film "Who wants to live forever" (full version here) shows how our needs as human beings have pushed mother nature to the brink of extinction, with so many animal species threatened with extinction today at a rate thousands of times faster than at any other time in the past.