
One of the characteristics of animation is that it offers the illusion of life, in which passive materials are transformed into living entities with agency of their own. A range of animated films from Bambi (Hand, 1942) to The Jungle…

One of the characteristics of animation is that it offers the illusion of life, in which passive materials are transformed into living entities with agency of their own. A range of animated films from Bambi (Hand, 1942) to The Jungle…

The universal but ever-changing relationship between humans and non-human nature is constantly interrogated through the language of animation. It is enabled precisely by animation’s distinct formal and aesthetic properties, such as plasmaticness, the illusion of life, anthropomorphosis and metamorphosis. These…