A lovely little short here from Yorkshire company Fettle Animation, uncovering stories from Bradford’s Polish Community.
Part of a series of “Fragile Stories” films commissioned by the National Media Museum, Bradford Animation Festival and I-Move, Yorkshire’s Cultural Programme for London 2012.
We’ve already featured the recently released Animating Reality DVD.
Here’s a review by Bill Gibron which looks at each film in some depth. Have a read and post a comment here to let us know if you agree or disagree…
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/44780/animating-reality-a-collection-of-short-documentaries/
If you don’t already know the Short of the Week site, check ot out for a hand-picked selection of quality short films and insightful reviews. From there comes this little nugget: interviews with four games fans about their virtual alter-egos and a hybrid of live action and machinima which inserts them into the world we know.
A stark animated documentary about the Berlin Wall, focussing on the memories of the interviewees imaginations as to what was on the other side.
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
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 fundamentalists take power – forcing the veil on women and imprisoning thousands. Clever and fearless, she outsmarts the “social guardians” and discovers punk, ABBA and Iron Maiden. Yet when her uncle is senselessly executed and as bombs fall around Tehran in the Iran/Iraq war, the daily fear that permeates life in Iran is palpable.
Trailer:
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, a dedicated worker with an unreliable arm and a dysfunctional relationship with technology.
The link below is only a clip, but there is an interview with the director included.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/festivals/edinburgh/the_tree_officer.shtml
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 and reaching cupboards that have grown taller, Louise’s plans sometimes miscarry, her sense of humour is foolproof.
Not your usual animated documentary – more effects and archive footage worked together to explore the world of Eadweard Muybridge.
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.
