Month: April 2012

  • DOCartoon festival, Pietrasanta, Italy

    Launched last year, DOCartoon is ‘the first festival in the world to be primarily dedicated to animated documentaries and non-fiction comics’. A mix of short and feature-length animadoc films, meetings and exhibitions takes place in an ancient city of Tuscany. Sounds like fun! There’s a Call for Entries on the home page for the this…

  • Animated Realities conference, Edinburgh, June 2011

    Edinburgh College of Art hosted a collaborative event with the Edinburgh International Film Festival: the Animated Realities conference: ‘a truly interdisciplinary event and a new platform for ideas’. The jointly curated animated documentary festival programmes of the festival including Iranian feature ‘The Green Wave’ were screened as part of the conference. Keynote speakers included Sheila…

  • ‘The Trouble With Love and Sex’ by Jonathan Hodgson for the BBC

    A 50 minute film, made for the BBC, in which several couples discuss their relationship problems. In the first full-length animated documentary made for British television drawn characters lipsync to the audio testimony recorded in the counselling rooms of Relate. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0113fwl And co-director Zac Beattie writes on the making of the film here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2011/05/wonderland-trouble-with-love-and-sex.shtml

  • Fueling Good by Carmichael Lynch

    Okay, so continuing the thread of posts which aren’t quite animated documentary, here’s an animation about a documentary! http://www.dexigner.com/news/24718

  • ‘Hysteria’ by Alys Scott Hawkins

    Here’s the film I made in my first year of the Animation MA course at the Royal College of Art. The brief was to make an extremely short film, starting from the word ‘bedlam’, which led me from the history of mental health care to treatments of the medical condition hysteria in Victorian Britain. Detailing…

  • ‘The Truth of Illusion’ article by director Samantha Moore

    From the APEngine site, hosted by Animate Projects, where there is a wealth of information on experimental films to be discovered… http://www.apengine.org/2010/11/the-truth-of-illusion-animated-documentary-and-theory-by-samantha-moore/

  • ‘Animated Minds’ series by Mosaic Films

    Two award-winning series of animated shorts exploring mental illness, made by Mosaic Films for Channel 4 & Teachers TV, and funded by the Wellcome Trust. http://animatedminds.com/

  • Animation Evolution conference, 2010

    In 2010 the annual Society for Animation Studies conference was held at Edinburgh College of Art, in Scotland. The 22nd Annual Society for Animation Studies Conference

  • ‘Colourful Claims: towards a theory of animated documentary

    An article by Jonathan Rozenkrantz on the Film International site… http://filmint.nu/?p=1809

  • ‘Victory Through Air’ by Disney

    Wow, more from the less-known back catalogue of Walt. This time, Second World War bombing. The original link we posted is now broken, but here it is in parts on Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paY6y87rrpE