Tag: RCA

  • A Taste for Music: interview with Jordan Antonowicz-Behnan

    Jordan Antonowicz-Behnan is a filmmaker, animator and visual artist based in Hastings. Behnan’s practice borrows largely from Assemblage; any item can be utilised in his work, and his animation style is unpolished, complementing his hands-on approach to filmmaking. His animated documentary A Taste for Music (2022) was his graduation film from the Royal College of Art’s Animation MA, and has shown widely, including at Animafest Zagreb,…

  • I Walk While Glaciers Melt: an interview with Lucia Lambarri Barberis

    Lucia Lambarri Barberis is a visual artist from Cusco, Peru, whose practice is rooted in walking through the Andes. Her 2024 short film I Walk While Glaciers Melt is a personal meditation on time and place, and has played at festivals including Tampere Film Festival, Tricky Women Tricky Realities, and the Science New Wave. We talked to Lucia…

  • ‘The Divide’ and ‘Childhood Memories’ by Mary Martins

    Mary Martins is a London based filmmaker making animated documentaries and experimental films. Her short film The Divide won the Mother Art Prize in 2017 as well as the Best New Voice award at the Factual Animation Film Fuss in 2016. The Divide from Mary Martins on Vimeo. In 2018 Martins was commissioned by the BFI…

  • Yellow Fever by Ng’endo Mukii: animation & representation

      Documentary animator Ng’endo Mukii on Facebook uses animation to challenge hegemonic representation. She has written on and spoken about her use of animation to document and explore personal histories and identity, on ideals of beauty, and on the problematic representation of indigenous people through traditional documentary. Mukii recently published a follow up to this final…

  • A view of Ecstatic Truth 2017

    The 2017 Ecstatic Truth Symposium took place on May 27 and explored the field of animated documentary. Presentations by scholars and practitioners from around the world covered topics including memory, trauma, visual and verbal language, industry structure and new technologies. The day kicked off with a keynote by Bella Honess Roe, who expanded on the…

  • Ecstatic Truth II: ‘Lessons of Darkness and Light’ 27th May 2017 Symposium at the Royal College of Art

    The second Ecstatic Truth symposium was held at the Royal College of Art, London, on the 27th May 2017. This postgraduate research event was organised by Animation Research Co-ordinator Dr Tereza Stehlikova, working closely with the Animation MA programme leader, Dr Birgitta Hosea. It takes place a year after the launch of the RCA’s MA Documentary Animation pathway.…

  • Ecstatic Truth 2016 and 2017

    With the next Ecstatic Truth symposium coming up on Saturday, this seems like a good time to revisit last year’s event and share the recordings of the jam-packed schedule of speakers, workshops and networking. Video documentation of all the speakers who presented at the 2016 symposium, including keynotes from Paul Ward, Abigail Addison and Brigitta Iványi-Bitter,…

  • Ecstatic Truth symposium: ‘Defining the Essence of Animated Documentary’, 14th May 2016 at the Royal College of Art

    Here’s the first of our posts reporting on the Ecstatic Truth symposium, which was held on a warm Saturday in May at the Royal College of Art, London. A postgraduate (PGR) research event organised by Animation Research Co-ordinator Dr Tereza Stehlikova, the day launched the RCA’s new Documentary pathway, on its long-running MA Animation course,…

  • ‘The Man Inside Mickey’ by Daniela Sherer, for the ‘Don’t Talk To Strangers’ project

    ‘Don’t Talk To Strangers’ is a blog focusing on collecting urban stories; these are then reworked into animation, illustration or song. The creators encourage visitors to the blog to leave a recorded message, on their skype address: dttsanimation or telephone: 020 3290 4348, describing a story, experience or thought. You may also simply email your tale…