Tag: 2011

  • ‘Little Birds Diary’ by Edmunds Janson

    A wonderful longer form short animated documentary featuring the drawn diaries of Irina Pilke. Starting in 1942, many of her drawings are brought to life through animation Irina talks us through her diary, with wit and laughter.  

  • ‘Andersartig’ by Dennis Stein-Schomberg

    Dennis Stein-Schomburg’s ‘Andersartig’, the German word for different, is an elderly woman’s account of her isolated youth in a German orphanage during a World War II allied bombing campaign. Schomburg captures the visual essence of memory through the use of transparency, a sepia colour palette and floating camera movements that include  slightly conflicting uses of…

  • ‘StoryCorps Animated Shorts’ by the Rauch Brothers

    StoryCorps is a US independent non-profit oral history project, charged with the task of recording, sharing and preserving personal stories of American lives. Many of the thousands of stories are broadcast weekly on National Public Radio’s ‘Morning Edition’ while a handful have been adapted into short animated documentaries. The Rauch Brothers co-directed all fifteen of…

  • ‘The Meth Project’ animations by Studio AKA

    The Meth Project is a U.S.A. based anti-drugs campaign created in response to the ‘growing Meth epidemic’. It makes use of online and broadcast media in order to dissuade teenagers from ever trying methamphetamine. The highly addictive illicit drug is associated with depression, suicide, serious heart disease, amphetamine psychosis, and violent behaviour. Prolonged abuse of…

  • Review of ‘Tanko Bole Chhe’ – The Stitch Speaks by Nina Sabnani

    I saw this beautifully crafted film at the Animated Realities conference in Edinburgh in 2011. The film animates a traditional sewing and textiles technique developed by the Kutch community, who are from a coastal region in Ahmedabad, India and has for a long time inspired fashion and textiles all over the world. Here is a…

  • ‘The Story of Cholera’ by Yoni Goodman and Global Health Media

    Animated public information film ‘The Story of Cholera’ explicitly depicts methods of transmission, prevention and treatment of the bacterial disease in a simple and informative manner. The commissioning body, Global Health Media, explains the film ‘follows evidence-based guidelines, has been field-tested, and reviewed for accuracy and content’. The entire sequence is strikingly utilitarian, breaking the…

  • ‘Oil’d’ by Chris Harmon

    In April 2010 a massive oil spill began in the Gulf. The entire country was glued to the news until the well was capped, and then we forgot about it.As the year anniversary was approaching I became curious, just how much oil was that exactly? Where would it have gone? What I found was shocking.…

  • ‘Reality 2.0’ trailer by Victor Orozco Ramirez

    As featured in our Dok Leipzig review, here is the trailer for Victor’s film. It was autumn when I arrived in Germany. I thought that in this exotic country I could distance myself a little bit from Mexico, but I was wrong. Drug traffickers managed to take me back in a ruthless way. A short…

  • ‘Tiberians’ Dreams’ by DM stop

    Another from the Vimeo doco-anim channel, specifically chosen as its subject centres on the life and work of being an animator. We do however disagree with the interviewees statement about Caroline Leaf! ‘Two young pencils document four Israeli animation icons. They confront them with questions, film and record every word, story or argument and by…

  • Review of ‘The Green Wave’ from The Seattle Times, USA

    A brief review of Ali Samadi Ahadi’s film which tells the story of Iran’s Green Revolution in 2009-10. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/movies/2018978780_mr24green.html