Month: June 2012

  • AnimationsfilmKunst von Frauen – book by the Tricky Women film festival

    Friend of the blog Annegret Richter (Head of Animation at DOK Leipzig festival in Germany) has recommended this book ‘Women in Animation’ written and produced by Waltraud Grausgruber and Birgitt Wagner who run the Tricky Women Animation Festival in Vienna, Austria. Within it there’s much information and a bonus DVD, including some animadoc films. http://www.schueren-verlag.de/film-und-medien/filmpraxis/titel/274–tricky-women.html

  • ‘Persepolis’ by Marjane Satrapi

    Here at animated documentary.com we were debating if Persepolis is an animated documentary or not  …what are your thoughts? Persepolis is the poignant story of a young girl in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. It is through the eyes of precocious and outspoken nine year old Marjane that we see a people’s hopes dashed as…

  • ‘The Tree Officer’ by Neil Jack

    Passionate about botany and horticulture, Gary is wearied by the endless requests from the town’s citizens for trees to be cut down. Resigned to his fate, he signs his daily quota of death warrants with an air of droll melancholy, assisted by his two colleagues: Matt, a sardonic temp with a stapling addiction; and Avril,…

  • ‘Louise’ by Anita Lebeau

    The detailed characterisation in this film is beautiful. This animated short is an ode to Louise, a fiercely independent 96-year old inspired by animator Anita Lebeau’s grandmother. Speaking in her own voice, Louise takes us through a day in her busy life near the town of Bruxelles, in rural Manitoba. Between coping with garden gophers…

  • ‘Mining for Muybridge’ by Tim Cole

    Not your usual animated documentary – more effects and archive footage worked together to explore the world of Eadweard Muybridge. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMeY55JYh0I

  • ‘Bid Em in’ by Neal Sopata

    A young woman’s humanity is cruelly rejected as she is placed on the auction block of a small southern pre civil war America. Animation and historical photographs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu3j7rPscpY

  • Interview with Andy Glynne

    An insightful interview with mosaic films Andy Glynn who made the animated minds series. Great manifesto for using animated documentary, plus some info on what he is working on now. http://www.ideastap.com/IdeasMag/the-knowledge/mosaic-films-andy-glynne

  • ‘Maisha’ by Hannah Klein and Abi Welsh

    Project in progress – an animation and documentary project with a participatory focus made with a group of school children in Mlali, a village in Tanzania, East Africa. We look forward to seeing the outcome, here’s a little about their project: Central to the project will be an ethic of collaboration, where a group of community…

  • ‘The Next Day’ by Jason Gilmore

    The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and TVO launch The Next Day, a groundbreaking interactive animated documentary constructed from intimate interviews with survivors of near-fatal suicide attempts. http://thenextday.nfb.ca/#/thenextday

  • The Wrong Trainers: Dillon’s story by Kez Margrie

    A collection of short animated docs looking at child poverty in the UK. https://vimeo.com/5743346