Tag: relationships

  • ‘Private Parts’ by Anna Ginsburg (NSFW)

    Anna Ginsburg’s snappy animated documentary, Private Parts, sidesteps social taboo by presenting frank and funny discussions about sex, with particular focus placed on the female anatomy.     Commissioned by Channel 4’s Random Acts, in partnership with It’s Nice That, Anna Ginsburg felt compelled to address the lack of attention given to carnal gratification when female…

  • Tess Martin’s new film ‘Mario’ – film-maker interview

    Mario from Tess Martin on Vimeo. “In Italian playgrounds a song is sung that dates back to World War I. This paint on glass animation tells the dark tale of a soldier who returns home from war to find his girlfriend has left him.” Tess Martin is a film-maker whose work ‘The Whale Story’ we…

  • ‘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…

  • ‘Are You My Mother’ by Alison Bechdel

    In this reflective, self-referential lesson in psychoanalysis, Bechdel sketches out every inch of her conscious and subconscious. She includes immaculately drawn extracts from Winnicot, Freud and Virginia Woolf, cross referencing and applying them to some complicated relationships with the women in her life.  It is impossible not to relate to this brutally honest memoir. It is…

  • ‘Ping Pong’ by George Gendi

    Described as ‘marital pingpong’ by Gendi, this ink drawn animation is a beautiful portrait of married life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vO8y5F1afE

  • ‘The Trouble With Love and Sex’ by Jonathan Hodgson for the BBC

    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: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2011/05/wonderland-trouble-with-love-and-sex.shtml