Green is the colour of hope. Green is the colour of Islam. And green was the symbol of recognition among the supporters of presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who became the symbolic figure of the Green Revolution. The presidential elections on June 12th, 2009 were supposed to bring about a change, but contrary to all expectations the ultra-conservative populist Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was confirmed in office. As clear as was the result, as loud and justified were the accusations of vote-rigging.
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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.
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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:
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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).
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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:
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Okay, so continuing the thread of posts which aren’t quite animated documentary, here’s an animation about a documentary!
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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
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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…
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Still from ‘My Blood is My Tears’ by Katerina Athanasopoulou 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.
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In 2010 the annual Society for Animation Studies conference was held at Edinburgh College of Art, in Scotland.
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