Category: Films
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A stark animated documentary about the Berlin Wall, focussing on the memories of the interviewees imaginations as to what was on the other side. https://vimeo.com/8240123
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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
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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
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A collection of short animated docs looking at child poverty in the UK. https://vimeo.com/5743346
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Recommended by Laura Heit over on our Facebook page, here’s a film made in the US from an audio diary recorded by a 19 year old South African. Beautiful textures and a lightness of approach… http://vimeo.com/11236137
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Here, a glimpse into government-sponsored short films of 1980s India. Doordarshan, the national broadcaster, regularly screened this popular film for kids. The title translates directly as “one, many and unity” and the film is designed to spread the message of unity in diversity among children. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8DZUKQClvc Director Vijaya Mulay, now 91, reveals something of the…
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Thanks to Tom Price for bringing this film to my attention: an autobiographical exploration of memory, using a number of 2D techniques & approaches. Well worth a look… https://vimeo.com/31943880
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