Category: Films

  • ‘Portraits’ curated by Art & Graft for autism charity Spectrum

    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…

  • ‘Wham! Bam! Islam!’ by Isaac Solotaroff

    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…

  • ‘The Manhattan Project’ by Cameron Michael

    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…

  • ‘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

  • ‘Invisible Slaves’ by MTV Exit

    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…

  • ‘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