The notion of the Scottish Animated comedy of the title is as unclear as the first part of the title. Is there such a genre? Is there a national identity inherent in a body of work? If so, can it…
In the article we will talk about animation as part of art practices of the day. At the Ukrainian art scene animation often, not pointedly, not bluntly, but indirectly is found in works of art, it comes in the spotlight…
To get closer into the heart of Thai-Thai-ness and as a continuation from ‘Tracing the Heart of Thai Animation’, which opened the discussion on Thai animation’s cultural identity and outlined the key feature films in their short history, this post…
The Films Division was created in 1948, the year after India’s independence. Imbued with a new discourse of official nationalism, it was to reflect the shifting ideologies of the emergent nation state. Describing the performative pedagogical functions of nationalism, historians…
The Thai industry is still relatively new, having had a slow staggered start in the 1940’s, and a flourish of a feature in 1979, the industry only really started in earnest early this century. This post is a precursor to…
Embarking on an all-Iraqi animation project within a country still recovering from the last few decades of upheaval presents particular problems and possibilities. Completing the short 3D animation Baghdad Night (2013), Iraqi/German artist Furat al-Jamil and her team were confronted…
Are animators in exile? Yes, as well as all the other positions that entail production for feature animation. August 2000 was my entry in the industry, the tail end of in-house traditional feature animation in California. Los Angeles had been…
Each year I ask my students who has seen the Oscar-nominated indigenous Irish feature The Secret of Kells (2009). Each year just a few hands go up. This might be unremarkable other than that I teach at an Irish University.…
In the Middle East, historically, the relationship between art and religion is complex. Islam declares that Allah is the only image-maker, the only creative and shaping being with divine inspiration. In that context, figurative art has been avoided. Islamic art…
