Tag: health
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Jess Mountfield‘s short animated documentary titled ‘The Untold Story of Brain Injury’ collaborates with Emilia Clarke’s charity Same You to give a voice to those who have been affected by traumatic brain injury. Mountfield reached out to the brain injury community and recorded their stories, editing over 30 voices into ‘one cohesive tapestry’. Mountfield uses…
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Anna Ginsburg’s ”Living with Depression’ visually interprets the experiences of two people giving their personal accounts of experiencing depression. The 2D hand-drawn animation style is expressive, each frame is detailed and full of life, yet beautifully encompasses the struggle of living with depression. Ginsberg has a certain quality with all of her films which is…
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This is an Animated Documentary and wrap around campaign to raise awareness and talk about some of the mental health wellbeing difficulties parents may face during pregnancy, birth and after. The aim is to emotionally support parents and enable them to find support. First hand testimonies along with animated characters and storylines open up conversations…
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AnimatedDocumentary.com is getting ready to cover the Encounters Short film and Animation Festival. The festival runs from the 20th to 25th September across a number of Bristol’s cultural venues. Friday 23rd September looks to be an exciting day for Documentary Animation fans: At 12 noon the 5th Animation programme, A Look Inside, will be screened at the…
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“Silent Signal is an ambitious project that brings together six artists working with animation together with six leading biomedical scientists to create experimental animated artworks exploring new ways of thinking about the human body” Image copyright Samantha Moore ‘Loop’ 2015 Image copyright Ellie Land ‘Sleepless’ 2015 The six animations are currently on a year long…
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Check out the trailer for Signe Baumane’s first feature expiring mental illness through the stories of five women in her family – ‘a funny film about depression’. Upcoming screenings around the world in Sept & Oct 2014 listed here: http://www.rocksinmypocketsmovie.com/Screenings.html And a series of ‘making of’ shorts here: http://www.rocksinmypocketsmovie.com/Process.html Signe’s portfolio site here: http://www.signebaumane.com
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Over on the Society for Animation studies blog, ‘Animationstudies 2.0’, there are a number of articles written on the theme of animation and health, two of which feature writing about animated documentary. Samantha Moore’s piece called “Secret Architecture – the construction of Loop” is about her recent work on the Silent Signal project with Animate! and Wellcome Trust,…
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Released over a year ago this animated docmentary looks at the current UK trend for labia surgery, a procedure which trims and tidies a woman’s labia. Directed and designed by animateddocumentary.com’s co founder Ellie Land. http://www.thecentrefoldproject.org/
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