“Critical utopias are not blueprints for ideal societies, but expressions of aspiration for human fulfillment towards which our political practices should always be directed.” — Ashlie Lancaster, Instantiating Critical Utopia Introduction. This post considers the cultural work taken up in…
In 2015 and again in 2017 we brought a small class of undergraduate animation students from the University of Technology Sydney on camping expeditions into the Sydney hinterland to seek out evidence and inspiration for animation in abandoned settlements of…
Recently I produced and directed a documentary about women working in the animation industry which highlighted the lack of women in key creative roles. The documentary, entitled British Animation Women Breaking the Mold, was broadcast on Sky Showcase Channel 192…
Paul Sharits (1943-1993) was an American film artist, a proponent of what Peter Gidal, P. Adams Sitney, and Anette Michelson referred to as “structural film” (Sitney 2002, 348). This 1960s avant-garde film movement foregrounded a film structure ahead of its…
“We shall count as real what we can use to intervene in the world to affect something else, or what the world can use to affect us.” – Ian Hacking, Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural…
