The Cats of the Faculty of Biology
Universitas Gadjah Mada's Faculty of Biology is home to a wide variety of creatures, chief among them being the cats who inhabit its buildings and woodland area. Though once abandoned, these cats now bring colour and life to the campus, forming a bond with students and providing them companionship and stress relief throughout their studies. We spoke to Rury, a lecturer who also cares for the cats, about the indelible mark they have left on the faculty, as well as two students, Ani and Andra, who discuss the impact cats have on students' mental health and why safeguarding them should be a priority.
Credits
ANIMAL LOVER AND LECTURER INTERVIEWED
Rury Eprilurahman
PRESENTED BY
Joaquim Baeta
DIRECTED AND SHOT BY
Joaquim Baeta & Lelly Marliana
EDITED BY
Joaquim Baeta
PRODUCED BY
Lelly Marliana
STUDENTS INTERVIEWED
Ani Fitriyani & Andra Carel Nicolla
STUDENTS SHOWN FEEDING CATS
Dwi Indahning Rohmah & Ignasia Margi Wahyuni
SUBTITLING
Lelly Marliana
ASSISTANCE
Ayu Asmarani
GRAPHICS
Cat line drawing by Nitinan Chumdavong; https://www.vecteezy.com/video/6671447-single-line-drawing-of-a-sitting-cat-there-is-a-copy-space-for-your-text; Vecteezy license
MUSIC
"accordion melody 17" by PhonosUPF; https://freesound.org/people/PhonosUPF/sounds/485810; CC0
"Accordion-music-clean" by eyenorth; https://freesound.org/people/eyenorth/sounds/482213; CC BY 4.0
"Beware of the Cow" by 1st Contact; https://freemusicarchive.org/music/1st-contact/single/beware-of-the-cow; CC BY 4.0
"Sinking Feeling" by Jesse Spillane; https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jesse_Spillane/Art_of_ Presentation/Jesse_Spillane_-_Art_of_Presentation_-_08_ Sinking_Feeling; CC BY 4.0
"Minor Obligation" by David Dellacroce; https://freemusicarchive.org/music/david-dellacroce/relatively-unobjectionable-melodies/minor-obligation; CC BY 4.0
"Solo Guitar For Unheated Leftovers" by David Dellacroce; https://freemusicarchive.org/music/david-dellacroce/single/solo-guitar-for-unheated-leftovers; CC BY 4.0
"Meaningless Rich World" by Dilating Times; https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dilating_Times/a-guitar-in-a-bedroom/meaningless-rich-world; CC BY 4.0
TOOLS USED
Recorded with Canon 60D, RØDE NTG4+
Edited with Kdenlive
Sound mastered with Reaper
License & Attribution
By Joaquim Baeta and Lelly Marliana. This video and the files associated with it are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. You are free to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon them in any medium or format, provided you give appropriate credit to Joaquim Baeta and Lelly Marliana, indicate any changes, and redistribute any derivative work under the same (or equivalent) license.
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