Much has been said about this highly successful feature – the first animated documentary to ‘break through’ to cinema audiences, and an influence on many films which have followed it.
Here’s the film’s official site, with some revealing information about the making of the film in the ‘Production Notes’ section – click ‘The Film’ tab.
Launched last year, DOCartoon is ‘the first festival in the world to be primarily dedicated to animated documentaries and non-fiction comics’. A mix of short and feature-length animadoc films, meetings and exhibitions takes place in an ancient city of Tuscany. Sounds like fun!
There’s a Call for Entries on the home page for the this year’s event, to be held in October. Check it out:
http://www.docartoon.it/index_eng.html
Edinburgh College of Art hosted a collaborative event with the Edinburgh International Film Festival: the Animated Realities conference: ‘a truly interdisciplinary event and a new platform for ideas’. The jointly curated animated documentary festival programmes of the festival including Iranian feature ‘The Green Wave’ were screened as part of the conference.
Keynote speakers included Sheila Sofian (University of Southern California), Paul Ward (Arts University College, Bournemouth) and Paul Wells (Loughborough University).
A 50 minute film, made for the BBC, in which several couples discuss their relationship problems. In the first full-length animated documentary made for British television drawn characters lipsync to the audio testimony recorded in the counselling rooms of Relate.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0113fwl
And co-director Zac Beattie writes on the making of the film here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2011/05/wonderland-trouble-with-love-and-sex.shtml
Okay, so continuing the thread of posts which aren’t quite animated documentary, here’s an animation about a documentary!
Here’s the film I made in my first year of the Animation MA course at the Royal College of Art. The brief was to make an extremely short film, starting from the word ‘bedlam’, which led me from the history of mental health care to treatments of the medical condition hysteria in Victorian Britain.
Detailing clitoridectomy and genital massage, it is not for the faint-hearted!
http://www.alyshawkins.co.uk/hysteria
Awards: Best Film, Compass of Desire Film Festival, Bristol, U.K. 2009
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/
Two award-winning series of animated shorts exploring mental illness, made by Mosaic Films for Channel 4 & Teachers TV, and funded by the Wellcome Trust.
In 2010 the annual Society for Animation Studies conference was held at Edinburgh College of Art, in Scotland.
An article by Jonathan Rozenkrantz on the Film International site…
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