“Yellow Cake,” is an animated short that teaches us something about global trade, hegemony, and the exploitation of the third world. It’s pretty heavy stuff for the genre, but, then again, this is pretty much exactly how I envision a nation of Toms dealing with a nation of Jerrys.
This short was created by animator Nick Cross. An interview about the piece can be found on Slow Decade.
By the way, if you think “Yellow Cake” sounds familiar, it’s because the term refers to a form of processed uranium ore. Hard to say if that plays into the title or not, though I imagine it does.
