Month: April 2013

  • ‘Blogging the animated documentary’ – article on Society for Animation Studies blog

    An article about this very blog, which I was invited to write for the the Society for Animation Studies blog. Blogging about blogging! Well in this case it’s reviewing films we’ve looked at on the blog so far, in order to assess the animadoc landscape; as something of a follow-up to other articles on the…

  • Review – ‘30%: women and politics in Sierra Leone’ by Anna Cady and Em Cooper

    This animated oil-on-glass and live action documentary is centered on the campaign in Sierra Leone to get a 30% quota of women in parliament. Titles in the film explain that women took a key role in negotiating the peace process at the end of an 11 year civil war, however since then female politicians have…

  • ‘The Story of Cholera’ by Yoni Goodman and Global Health Media

    Animated public information film ‘The Story of Cholera’ explicitly depicts methods of transmission, prevention and treatment of the bacterial disease in a simple and informative manner. The commissioning body, Global Health Media, explains the film ‘follows evidence-based guidelines, has been field-tested, and reviewed for accuracy and content’. The entire sequence is strikingly utilitarian, breaking the…

  • ‘Nyosha’ by Liran Kapel and Yael Dekel

    Nyosha is the story of a young Jewish girl who becomes fixated on a pair of shoes as the source of her salvation while her life is ripped apart by the Holocaust. Based on the diary and video recordings of Nomi Kapel, one of the young filmmaker’s grandmother, director ‪Liran Kapel and Yael Dekel have employed both…

  • Animated Documentary workshop, Austria, 6th-10th July 2013

    News in of the five day animadoc workshop which will run as part of Animation Summer, the Tricky Women Summer Academy, at the University of Applied Sciences in St. Polten. Led by Sam Moore, participants will work collaboratively to produce a short film. This is just one of a programme of creative animation workshops running…

  • ‘Heirlooms’ by Susan Danta and Wendy Chandler

    Heirlooms from Wendy Chandler on Vimeo Recently screened as part of the animadoc programme at the Tricky Women festival, Vienna, here’s a compilation of short episodes from a series made for Australian broadcaster SBS. In each episode a possession passed down the generations recalls memories and family histories, often of migration and war.

  • ‘Disfarmer’ by Dan Hurlin

    It seems that puppets are further crossing the threshold of reality by taking on non-fictional roles. Though this is not animation, the documentary genre is forever expanding and shifting mediums, even extending to live puppet shows. Dan Hurlin’s ‘Disfarmer,’ is a biographical puppetry performance about the American realist portrait photographer Mike Disfarmer, whose haunting and intimate…