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You can watch How Democracy Actually Works here in its entirety. In this episode of Leunig Animated, narrated by Sam Neill, Leunig’s little Man learns how our votes really count in the political process.
Curator’s notes
Leunig’s bewildered little Man is brought to life in this brief but succinct animation explaining how democracy really works. Director Andrew Horne makes the most of the one minute of film time to tell Leunig’s provocative story. What the audience does not see, however, is that there are 1,500 frames, or possible movements, in that one minute of film.
Compare the treatment of democracy in animator Bruce Petty’s The Government Machine (2002) and Global Haywire (2007).
