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Queer/ing Animation

“Trans”formers: Reading the Rescue Bots

by Nichola Dobson • December 15, 2016 • 3 Comments

I’ve written here before about some of the children’s animation which my son consumes and, as he gets older (he’s almost 5), we all become exposed to more sophisticated shows aimed at older children. Thankfully, many of these shows are…

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Queer/ing Animation

#GiveElsaAGirlfriend and the Importance of Mainstream Queer Cartoons

by Bethan Jones • December 12, 2016 • 1 Comment

In fan studies, we often talk about fans being ‘poachers’ of texts (Jenkins 1992). Fans, we argue, lift bits and pieces from texts and create their own works: Sherlock becomes a detective in a high school; Edward and Bella become billionaire…

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Queer/ing Animation

Using Animation as a Platform for Queer Awareness

by Kate Jessop • December 5, 2016 • 3 Comments

Witnessing the outpouring of grief in the queer community after the death of David Bowie made me realize just how much he had meant to a generation and beyond in regards to giving people permission to explore their gender identity,…

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Animation & the Comic Book

Conveying Time and Movement within the Comic Book and the Animated Frame

by Craig Smith • November 28, 2016 • 3 Comments

The early twentieth century bore witness not only to the emergence of the ‘standalone’ printed comic book, but also to the birth of the animated film. In many ways, comics have often been associated with their moving image counterparts, as…

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Animation & the Comic Book

Sin City: When Comics and Film Collide

by Veronique Sina • November 21, 2016 • 4 Comments

In general, comic book to film adaptations may be defined as adaptations of drawn comic strips and comic book series for the medium of film (Marschall 2002: 103). As this definition implies, there are two basic aspects that seem to…

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Animation & the Comic Book, Documentary

Deterrent Versus Disclosure: The ‘No Way’ Campaign Comic and Nowhere Line: Voices from Manus Island

by Nina Mickwitz • November 14, 2016 • 0 Comments

Lukas Schrank’s animated short, Nowhere Line: Voices from Manus Island (2015), uses recorded mobile phone conversations as both source and sound track, to tell the stories of two detainees in one of the Australian government’s notorious offshore refugee camps. This…

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Documentary

This Is Your Life, Donald Duck and the Early Mockumentary

by Cristina Formenti • November 7, 2016 • 0 Comments

Undeniably, the most popular way of intersecting animation and documentary is that of using animation to recount a factual occurrence. Yet, this is not the only possible manner in which they can combine. Another way of crossing them over consists in…

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Documentary

Dialoguing on the Refusal of the Indexical (Part 2)

by Kelly Sears • October 31, 2016 • 0 Comments

Featured in this interview is Tara Knight’s animated, episodic, documentary series of short films, Mikumentary, about the singing, dancing, and collaboratively-created hologram Hatsune Miku. Through fragmented storytelling and animation that responds to Miku as a reconfigurable subject, Knight creates a modular…

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Documentary

Dialoguing on the Refusal of the Indexical (Part 1)

by Tara Knight • October 24, 2016 • 0 Comments

To many “animated documentary” sounds like an oxymoron: the genre inherently refuses indexical understandings of “the real” as purported, and highly debated, within photographic documentary practices. Similarly, it is accepted that historical, archival, or found footage imagery may stand in…

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Documentary

Animating Autism

by Ruth Richards • October 17, 2016 • 4 Comments

In 2015, Griffith Film School’s LiveLab collaborated with Gold Coast Health and Sentis to produce an animated short on autism. Released online in 2016, Ky’s Story – Living with Autism aims to raise awareness about autism through the story of Ky…

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