Author: Ellie Land

  • ‘Talking ‘Kiwi ‘ by Simeen Douglas and Toni Chase

    Animadoc looking at the feelings about immigration and cultural conformity in New Zealand. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf1jhPls8Lc

  • ‘Why I had an FGC’ by Suzanne Cohen

      Interviews with UK teens about being part of Family Group Conferencing. This fully animated documentary was commissioned by the (UK) social services and produced in collaboration with BSc Computer Animation students at London Metropolitan University. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRbRKtO78h4

  • ‘Ex Libris’ by Melissa Hacker

    Ex Libris is a hybrid non-fiction film using animation, collage, and first person narrative to trace the vanished world of the ex libris collection my grandfather, Marco Birnholz, commissioned, created and lost in Vienna between the two world wars. Ex Libris will explore the intimate, intricate universe my grandfather created in his collection, and the exploding world he…

  • ‘McLaren’s Negatives’ by Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre

    We love animated films about animators… here’s an animated portrait of Scots – Canadian animator Norman Mclaren. Featured in ‘Crossing Identities Best of Anima doc at Doc Leipzig‘ programmed by Annegret Richter. McLaren’s Negatives is a short animated documentary directed by French Canadian filmmaker Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre. The film is a study of the Canadian animator…

  • ‘Ping Pong’ by George Gendi

    Described as ‘marital pingpong’ by Gendi, this ink drawn animation is a beautiful portrait of married life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vO8y5F1afE

  • ‘It’s like that’ by SLAG (Southern Ladies Animation Group)

      It’s Like That uses the voices of 3 refugee children held in mandatory detention under the Migration Act 1958. They were interviewed over the phone by ABC journalist Jacqueline Arias. https://vimeo.com/31071014

  • ‘Everything was life’ by Ellie Land

    Everything was Life is an experimental documentary using animation and live action to explore the practice of female genital mutilation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVbxTB4rzc4

  • ‘Leonid’s Story’ by Rainer Ludwigs

    Still enjoying it’s time on the international film festival circuit, you can find a link to the trailer here for Leonid’s story. An animated biography on the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. A mixture of animation, photo collage and real documentary footage. http://leonidsstory.com/en/trailer.htm  

  • ‘Tying your own shoes’ by Shira Avni

      Beautiful and sensitive mix of live action and animation. The link below is for the trailer and download for the film. This short documentary is an intimate glimpse into the exceptional mindsets and emotional lives of four adult artists with Down Syndrome. An artful, four-way essay about ability, this animated film explores how it feels…

  • BBC article featuring ‘Waltz with Bashir’

    A report by the BBC looking at why animation can be used to talk about themes of War. Includes references to Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi and graphic novels such as Maus by Art Spiegelman http://71.45.131.15/doc/archives/11671