Category: Writing
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An article from online journal Reconstruction looking at how animation relates to ideas of the real. Animated realities: the animated film, documentary, realism / Paul Ward: http://reconstruction.eserver.org/082/ward.shtml
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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
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Friend of the blog Annegret Richter (Head of Animation at DOK Leipzig festival in Germany) has recommended this book ‘Women in Animation’ written and produced by Waltraud Grausgruber and Birgitt Wagner who run the Tricky Women Animation Festival in Vienna, Austria. Within it there’s much information and a bonus DVD, including some animadoc films. http://www.schueren-verlag.de/film-und-medien/filmpraxis/titel/274–tricky-women.html
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An insightful interview with mosaic films Andy Glynn who made the animated minds series. Great manifesto for using animated documentary, plus some info on what he is working on now. http://www.ideastap.com/IdeasMag/the-knowledge/mosaic-films-andy-glynne
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A short article about animated documentary as a medium growing in popularity, from the Daily News and Analysis, a lifestyle magazine in India. http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report_more-real-than-reality_1691156
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From the APEngine site, hosted by Animate Projects, where there is a wealth of information on experimental films to be discovered… http://www.apengine.org/2010/11/the-truth-of-illusion-animated-documentary-and-theory-by-samantha-moore/
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Bella Honess-Roe’s PhD thesis which lays out a foundation for studying animated docs is now available from the USC website as an open-access PDF!
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One from the archives of FPS magazine, published in 2005. Sheila Sofia writes about animated documentary shorts, including her own films ‘Survivors’ and A Conversation with Haris’. [EDIT – FPS magazine is now no longer available online, so the article is uploaded here as a series of jpegs]
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