Author: Alys Scott Hawkins
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Five beautifully designed and animated short films about individuals who UK autism charity Spectrum work with, made by Art & Graft, Matthias Hoegg, Mikey Please, Kristian Andrews and Sebastien Eballard. You can watch all the films from the project page here There’s also a film by Art & Graft about the charity and what they…
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A live action documentary which follows the creation of Muslim comic book heroes and uses animated sequences to bring the characters to life. “WHAM! BAM! ISLAM! tells the story of Naif Al-Mutawa and his venture to create the first team of superheroes from the Muslim world called THE 99. Following the tumultuous journey of THE…
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This film is definitely tends towards the cheesy for my taste, but I’m always saying time-lapse is underused as an animadoc medium and I always want to see more of it. (For a great example see Schendler & Segal’s London film ‘Timeline’ here). The Manhattan Project HD1080P from Cameron Michael on Vimeo. Check out this…
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Two clips from ‘Invisible Slaves’, MTV Exit’s new film featuring the stories of four young people as part of a campaign to combat human trafficking in Mexico. Presented by Puerto Rican band Calle 13 the film brings together the Pan American Development Foundation with the Mexican government, private sector companies, and civil society groups to…
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Another animadoc classic! On 25 April 1995 16 year old Matthew Easdale was shot in Brisbane. His mother was interviewed on the radio. Using rotoscoped animation the film presents the story in two very different ways. There are several clips of the film on Dennis’ website at http://dennistupicoff.com, and the film is included on the…
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Originally posted on Animating Documentary: Last week I went to the launch of Centrefold, at the Wellcome Trust in London. The film, directed by Ellie Land (one half of the team behind this great animated docs blog), is about female genital cosmetic surgery and aims to provide a non-judgemental look at labia surgery and ‘encourage informed…
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Inspired by a CIA manual here’s a DIY guide to torture. Winner of many many awards this film now fronts a Belgian Amnesty International campaign. More info here. http://vimeo.com/1450037
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From Beakus in London, two more segments in the BBC’s series on child poverty ‘the Wrong Trainers’ for kids’ news programme Newsround. The series won awards from BAFTA and the National Television Society. Here’s Danielle’s story, directed by Leigh Hodgkinson: http://beakus.com/blog/newsround-danielles-story And here’s Semera’s story, directed by Steve Smith: http://littlebeak.com/blog/newsround-on-poverty
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Another tip-off from Annegret Richter at the brilliant DOK Leipzig festival. Here are two programmes of animadoc films by female film-makers which she curated for the Tricky Women festival in Vienna, Austria last year. http://www.trickywomen.at/index.php?id=252 http://www.trickywomen.at/festival/tricky-women-bisher/2011/programm/animated-documentaries-2/
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A lovely little short here from Yorkshire company Fettle Animation, uncovering stories from Bradford’s Polish Community. Part of a series of “Fragile Stories” films commissioned by the National Media Museum, Bradford Animation Festival and I-Move, Yorkshire’s Cultural Programme for London 2012. http://fettleanimation.com/2012/07/02/247/
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