Non-fiction Animation
72'
This growing animation subgenre is extremely important due to the understanding of narrative strategies of contemporary cinema. More and more often, artists move away from creating new stories, focusing instead on working with their own experiences and talking about people they have met in person. Non-fiction animation is not always a straight recording of reality – often, it is about improvising around prepared material, like memories, specific data or fragments of photographs. Sometimes, an audio recording will suffice. Similarly to documentary films, their animated variation fires up the authors’ creativity to the point where the audience might invoke a certain cliché – that life writes the best stories. This year’s set of non-fiction animation features a lot of different ones. From interviews with people who met extraterrestrial beings, through memories of a heroic rooster, to a sociological/meditative animation on the homo sapiens. Every single on of them told with a masterful and fresh approch to the medium.
Setlist:
I Met the Walrus, Josh Raskin, CAN 2007
My mother’s Coat, Marie-Margaux Tsakiri-Scanatovits, UK 2010
Bits and Species, Urszula Palusińska, PL 2010
Over the Top, Tristan Dyer, USA 2014
Beams, Mitchell Crawford, USA 2015
Marcel, King of Tervuren, Tom Schroeder, BEL 2012
Henio, Agnieszka Kotulska, PL 2015
Never like the first time!, In Dreams, SWE 2006
In Dreams, Samuel Blain, UK 2014