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Theology

Representations of Muslim Trauma in The Breadwinner (2017)

by Safiyya Hosein • March 7, 2023 • 0 Comments

The Breadwinner is a 2D animated film about an Afghan Muslim girl’s desperate attempt to support her family. The film follows an 11-year-old girl, Parvana, who cuts her hair and dresses up as a boy to work for the family…

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Mythology of Repetition, Memitology in Animated Gifs

by Wayner Tristão Gonçalve • February 28, 2023 • 0 Comments

Mythology, as a reference to looping, serves as a new narrative origin, since it enables the narration of the story behind eternal punishments. These Greek heroes betray the trust of some god and are therefore punished with repetition. Duration is…

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The Animator-as-Creator “Theology” in Still Alive (2018)

by Dennis Tupicoff • February 21, 2023 • 0 Comments

The animator is often seen as a God controlling all time and space in the animated film. Yet, in our shared world of human life, the animator is as helpless as everyone else, and must die. After a serious acute…

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Revelation of the Author and Incarnation in the Animated Film

by Terry Lindvall • February 14, 2023 • 1 Comment

The giant journalist G. K. Chesterton observed that “as God made a pigmy-image of Himself and called it Man, so man made a pigmy-image of creation and called it art” (Chesterton, 264). J. R. R. Tolkien argued that all artists…

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Theology and Animated Parables

by Terry Lindvall • February 7, 2023 • 0 Comments

A discussion of theology, from the writings of St. Paul through the ironies of Soren Kierkegaard, delves into questions of God, of human nature, of theodicy and the problem of evil, and of incarnation, sacrifice, grace, and salvation. The heavy…

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Animation as Sacred Text: Thoughts on Community Formation

by Erin Jones and Tim Jones • January 31, 2023 • 0 Comments

One of the gifts of most faith-based communities is that they are among the few places in society where people of multiple generations gather together for meaning-making purposes. The task of pastors, rabbis, imams, or other leaders is to offer…

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Animated Intergenerational Interviews

by Ruth Hayes • January 9, 2023 • 0 Comments

In winter, 2021, I and my co-faculty, Laurie Meeker, assigned our students to produce Animated Intergenerational Interviews about individuals’ relationships with their environment. The interviews were to be 30 to 60 seconds long, include at least 30 seconds of animation…

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Animation and the Environment

The Ugly Anthropocene: Animated Simulation and Non-Human Perspectives

by Colin Wheeler • October 3, 2022 • 1 Comment

The Anthropocene reveals the ways in which our day-to-day perception of what constitutes ‘normal’ misleads us, as we require time lapse footage to render the melting ice caps perceptible to our biologically limited temporality, for example (see Ehrlich 2021, 42).…

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A Town Called Panic!’s “Bricolage” Aesthetic and Low-budget Methods: A New Model for Ecological and Resilient Stop Motion Productions

by Cyril Lepot • September 26, 2022 • 1 Comment

One of the main attractions of stop motion animation is to be found in how the animator plays with materials, since the medium’s specificity, compared to 2D or 3D animation, is to film objects in real space. If any filmic…

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Should the Low Frame Rate of Stop-motion Animation Be Regarded as a Defect?

by SHengwei Zhou • September 19, 2022 • 1 Comment

Compared to the fluent visual effect of nowadays stop-motion animations with a high frame rate like LAIKA studio’s ones, most of the stop-motion animations from early times shared a much lower frame rate. Stop-motion animators seem to treat the low…

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