Archives are divine. They have the power to transport us back to a forgotten time; they can suggest, with tantalizing incompleteness, new revelations about a hitherto familiar subject; and they can bend, warp, break, and remake history. Archives are also…
Following the success of the first ‘Animation and Public Engagement Symposium’ (APES), which ran in association with the Bradford Animation Festival in 2014, APES 2015 touched down at the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle for this year’s installment. Coordinated by Society…
So the Super Bowl happened again (I’m a Brit), and beyond the field-based drama, which lasted right to the end of the game this time round, with a spectacularly improbable catch setting up a dramatic final few seconds, the main…
As a matter of background, Canterbury Anifest is now in its seventh year, and has welcomed speakers from Aardman, Double Negative, DreamWorks, Pixar, and The Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation, to name but a few. Each year, Anifest also hosts…
A pig that doesn’t fly is just a pig. So says the eponymous Porco Rosso. I have suggested elsewhere (Pallant, 2012) the need to recognise the tension that underpins animated performance, whereby actorly and animatorly performance occupy two extremes of…
