We haven’t posted anything from the Doco-anim channel over at Vimeo in a while, here’s a cute sketchbook style short about people attending La Fete National in Quebec Canada.
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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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Why Build a Sun on Earth? from Nik Morris on Vimeo.
Short film made by Nik Morris in collaboration with fusion scientists at York Plasma institute, this is a beautifully designed film which disseminates academic research.
“Touring UK schools in a portable ‘Sun Dome’, this film offers an informative and entertaining spectacle that demonstrates the benefits of nuclear fusion research and empowers its young audiences to be part of the solution for our energy future.”
Winner: 1st Prize, Durham New Energy Futures Film Festival at Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle, UK on September 27th 2012
Review on One & Other here: http://www.oneandother.com/articles/why-build-a-sun-on-earth/
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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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A Canadian feature doc which explores recent financial developments and asks questions about the global banking system.
Watch on Youtube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbdHar4hSsU&feature=player_embeddedThere’s a review from Top Documentary Stream here.
There are two sequels and subsequent additional shorts on the film’s website here.
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As much an internet phenomenon as a short film, Annie Leonard and Free Range Studios have created a website which is the centre point for an online campaign which asks us to question our relationship to stuff, and consider where stuff comes from and goes to.
There are all sorts of resources on the website http://www.storyofstuff.org including several films, podcasts and downloads. The films have been used as educational tools and then criticised for politically manipulating children.
See what you think here.
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Exciting schedule of events in the first week of November in Wolverhampton. The University of Wolverhampton is holding an animation postgraduate research event curated by animated documentary director and academic Samantha Moore, as well as the start of the Flip Animation Festival. More details below:The full programme of presentations is now available on-line for our animation post graduate research event at the University of Wolverhampton on Thursday November 1st 2012.The day will consist of presentations by current animation PhD students from universities around the UK. They will be talking about their work in progress; an interesting mix of work about activism in animation, animation as therapy, animation and genre …
The full programme is available on the website https://sites.google.com/site/wolverhamptonanimationpgr/home
“The event at the university is free, although you must book your place with us (please e-mail S.Moore[at]wlv.ac.uk to do so). We would like to encourage animation PhD students, supervisors and those considering undertaking post graduate research in animation to attend, so if you know anyone who would find this useful please do pass on the details.That day marks the start of the Flip animation festival and we’ve arranged the day so that you can go on to attend a special guest screening, Q&A and animation quiz in the evening if you’d like to stay on (there will be a separate cost for this at a reduced rate for our attendees). There will also be a dinner before the Flip festival kicks off, at a cost per head of approximately £19 each. Please let me know if you would like to book a seat for this. We hope to see you in Wolverhampton in November!”
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Great line up of animated films and comics that deal with non-fiction, curated by Thomas Martinelli. It starts on the 6th October in Pietrasanta, Italy.
http://www.docartoon.it/index_eng.html
You can follow the action on Facebook here.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CBeeyYmULAPosted by oldclassiccartoons on Youtube, this is an information film from 1951 about the development of agriculture made by UPA for the American Petroleum Institute; so in fact, it’s really propaganda for doing your farming with oil-powered machines!
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A Spanish, German and Belgian co-production, directors Raul de la Fuente & Damian Nenow are making a film based on war reporter Ryszard Kapuścińki’s book about the trip he made to Angola in 1975.
The images are beautiful, but funny how they bear more than a passing resemblance to a certain animadoc war feature we have all seen. Is this similarity about what funders will fund, or are we animadoc makers suffering from a lack of vision?
Read the article here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CBeeyYmULA
