Vivienne Barry’s Como alitas del chincol (2002) is an animated documentary that dramatizes the contradictory roles of the arpilleristas as women engaged in both domestic craft and political subversion. A tribute to the quilters who survived and documented Pinochet’s dictatorship…
Latin American Animation
Transnational impact of South American dubbing monopoly of Disney classics
by Maria Pagès • May 19, 2026 • 0 Comments
For decades, the audiovisual consumption of Disney animated classics in the Spanish-speaking world was defined by a centralized dubbing model that prioritized economic profitability and private market over regional linguistic diversity (Iglesias Gómez, 2009: 499). The history of this process…
Chinese Animation
Animated Plant Life beyond the Background in Another World 世外 (2025)
by Isabel Galwey • May 14, 2026 • 0 Comments
The abundance of fantastical plant life is one of the defining characteristics of the visual identity and world-building in the Hong Kong animated feature Another World 世外(Ng, 2025), which is richly rendered through hand-drawn 2D animation. This text explores how…
Chinese Animation
Stereotyped Portrayals of Chinese Indonesian Characters in Animation
by Christian Aditya • May 7, 2026 • 0 Comments
Indonesia prides itself on a multicultural identity that is celebrated through the national motto, Bhinneka Tunggal Ika (unity in diversity). However, Chinese Indonesians, as the largest demographic of foreign descent, often face reductive media portrayals. This tendency is mirrored in…
Chinese Animation
Surface and Structure in The Legend of Hei (2019)
by Myria Christophini • May 5, 2026 • 0 Comments
The Legend of Hei (2019) did not begin as a stand-alone animated feature but emerged from The Legend of Luo Xiaohei (罗小黑战记), which is a web animation created by MTJJ that first aired in 2011. By the time the animation…
Chinese Animation
Hybrid Ink-Wash and the New Wave of National Style in Nobody 浪浪山小妖怪(2025)
by Dong Yang • May 1, 2026 • 0 Comments
Led by Chinese animation pioneers such as Te Wei and Tadahito Mochinaga, who was also known as Fang Ming, the Shanghai Animation Film Studio (SAFS) established in the late 1950s a singular visual modernity through traditional ink-wash animation. Masterpieces such…
Chinese Animation
The Development of Early Chinese Animation Through Entertainment, Education and Ideology
by Ying Zhang • April 29, 2026 • 0 Comments
The development of early Chinese animation is closely intertwined with China’s cultural policy, political movements, and educational initiatives, and cannot be fully understood without situating it in the historical and social context of the Republican era. This text explores how…
African Animation
Animated poetry in Afrikaans: independent animation production and the role of genre
by Diek Grobler • April 23, 2026 • 0 Comments
I am performative researcher, theorising through what Brad Haseman calls “enthusiasm of practice” (Haseman, 2006) rather than a premeditated research question. In performative research the practice itself is primary; the research results may embody knowledge which might not be adequately…
African Animation
Taeps Animation Studios and the Case for African-Led Animation
by Imaeyen Effiong • April 21, 2026 • 0 Comments
As the pull towards African animation escalates globally among major production companies, with the continent’s attractive population size and mostly untapped market, there is an unmistakable distance from the very audience they claim to be interested in. Recent African-led projects,…
African Animation
Frogs as Counterclaim in The Death of Gandji (La Mort du Gandji) (1965)
by T. R. Merchant-Knudsen • April 9, 2026 • 2 Comments
The Death of Gandji (La Mort du Gandji) (1965) is an animated short film directed and drawn by Moustapha Alassane. Widely regarded as one of the earliest animators in Niger, he produced his first animation during an internship at the…