Category: Writing
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Well, I was very pleased this morning to find this review, and eager to watch the brand new trailer for the latest animated feature from the director of award winning animated documentary – Waltz with Bashir – Ari Folman. However the trailer has already been removed for copyright reasons! So if anyone out there knows of a link to the trailer…
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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…
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Here is our first interview with a film maker in what we hope to be a regular feature on our blog. Jeff Simpson, one of the three co-directors of A Liar’s Autobiography, talks about the experience of making the animated feature based on Graham Chapman’s life. I asked Jeff to explain the genesis of the…
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Happy New Year Readers! We have a new category for the blog featuring graphic novels and comics – all exploring real life stories or subjects. Our first post is about the award winning autobiographical graphic novel written and illustrated by a husband and wife team. Article below: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jan/02/costa-awards-graphic-novel-biography
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Feature length animated history of poverty reviewed in the Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/nov/28/tv-review-poor-us-animated-history
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This day long symposium was designed and delivered by Animation Therapy’s Helen Mason, at this years Encounters Short film and animation festival in September 2012. ‘Animation on prescription’ brought together health professionals, animators and artists at a day long symposium exploring the following themes: animation as a process in a therapy setting, therapeutic interventions as…
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An article, published yesterday on the BFI site, on the series of films for autism charity Spectrum which we blogged back in August. http://www.bfi.org.uk/news/animating-autism-spectrum-portraits-project
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Sorry folks this isn’t the actual film, but it is a fascinating blog post from ‘The Lost Continent’ blog. http://ukanimation.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/karen-watson-and-daddys-little-bit-of.html
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Fun article, highlighting some of the tensions documentary directors explore between the real and the unreal. With examples from this years Toronto Film Festival. http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2012/09/04/f-hybrid-documentaries-tiff-2012.html
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A brief review of Ali Samadi Ahadi’s film which tells the story of Iran’s Green Revolution in 2009-10. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/movies/2018978780_mr24green.html
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