Tag: 2007

  • ‘I Met the Walrus’ by Josh Raskin

    ‘I Met the Walrus’ is the animated extension of an extraordinary interview that took place in 1969. A fourteen-year-old Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape machine, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto. The ‘Beatle’ rewarded the teenager’s pluckiness with an interview that contains the distillation of the musician’s message of peaceful protest.…

  • ‘The Beloved Ones’ by Samantha Moore

    Samantha Moore’s 2007 UK Film Council commissioned animated documentary explores problems of stigma and denial in a Ugandan community through the eyes of two women dealing with the effects of HIV/AIDS in their respective families. The materiality of this animation technique is charmingly tangible. Two examples are the hut roof fashioned from torn corrugated cardboard and…

  • ‘I Dreamt of Flying’ by Alex Bland

    Alex Bland conjures the atmosphere of wartime Britain in this nostalgic exploration of the R.A.F.’s Bomber Command, a battalion charged with the treacherous task of attacking German targets at the dead of night. Set out in a roughly chronological narrative, archive recordings and contemporary interviews with ex-crew members narrate the early stages of excitement during enlisting,…

  • ‘The Accident’ by Sarah Nesteruk

    Another one from animated documentray gems over on Vimeo, this animation created with ink, Sarah Nesteruk makes sense of her family history. https://vimeo.com/channels/docoanim/14003615

  • ‘Do-It-Yourself’ by Eric Ledune

    Inspired by a CIA manual here’s a DIY guide to torture. Winner of many many awards this film now fronts a Belgian Amnesty International campaign. More info here. http://vimeo.com/1450037

  • More from ‘The Wrong Trainers’ for the BBC

    From Beakus in London, two more segments in the BBC’s series on child poverty ‘the Wrong Trainers’ for kids’ news programme Newsround. The series won awards from BAFTA and the National Television Society. Here’s Danielle’s story, directed by Leigh Hodgkinson: http://beakus.com/blog/newsround-danielles-story And here’s Semera’s story, directed by Steve Smith: http://littlebeak.com/blog/newsround-on-poverty

  • ‘Die Andere Seite’ (the other side) by Ellie Land

    A stark animated documentary about the Berlin Wall, focussing on the memories of the interviewees imaginations as to what was on the other side. https://vimeo.com/8240123

  • ‘Persepolis’ by Marjane Satrapi

    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…

  • The Wrong Trainers: Dillon’s story by Kez Margrie

    A collection of short animated docs looking at child poverty in the UK. https://vimeo.com/5743346

  • ‘About Running’ by Suky Best

    The UK’s Great North Run has just opened its Moving Image Comission for 2012: a £30 000 budget to make new work in response to the world’s largest half-marathon. More info here: http://www.greatnorthrunculture.org/moving-image/apply I just discovered in the archives a film from 2007 by director Suky Best which focuses on the stories and experiences of…