Animated Worlds is a curating project by Sandeep C Ashwath and Pooja Pottenkulam.
‘Animated Worlds’ ran from October 2009 to July 2010. It featured the best of international auteur animation. An in-depth look into classical, historically-significant and contemporary work of animation filmmakers, artists and collectives, it showcased varied visual, technical and conceptual genres. ‘Animated Worlds’ also includes panel discussions, interviews and talks by noteworthy filmmakers, critics and scholars from the world of auteur animation.
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18th October 2009 Lines and Scratches
This programme featured a selection of animated films that explore the communicative and expressive energies of lines, marks, scratches and drawings within narrative and non-narrative contexts. The evening also included a panel discussion with selected filmmakers George Gendi, Matt Abbiss, Belle Mellor, Will Bishop-Stephens and
Pedro Serrazina who spoke about the contexts of their work methodology.
15th November 2009 The Animated Documentary
The Animated Documentary is a genre of film, which combines the genres of animation and documentary. This programme showcased contemporary examples of the animated documentary that covers a wide range of animated techniques used to depict real-life stories based on interviews, articles, journals, participant art works and experiences of the filmmakers. Professor Bella Honess Roe interviews filmmakers Veselina Dashinova, George Gendi, Christoph Steger, Tim Webb.
20th December 2009 Bob Godfrey
Roland Frederick Godfrey (born 27 May 1921) is a distinguished British animator whose career spans more than fifty years. He is probably best known for the children’s cartoon series Roobarb and Custard. The evening included an introduction to Bob Godfrey by Jim Walker, Senior Lecturer in Visual Theory at University for the Creative Arts Maidstone.
17th January 2010 The Animated Metaphor
This programme hopes to help re-think and re-invent the viewing of animated films. In extending Trevor Whittock’s (1990) ideas on metaphor in film, it explores the very notion of the animated film as being metaphoric. The programme introduce films by helping viewers to read the mechanisms of metaphors, metonym, synecdoche, object correlative etc that might shed light on the meaning making processes of animation, followed by discussion with filmmaker Martin Pickles.
21st February 2010 Authorship: written and Drawn
While writing is an important aspect of most auteurist live action cinema, mark making and movement are additional determinants of authorial ownership in an animation film. The fifth episode of Animated Worlds look at collaborations between writers, graphic novelists and animation filmmakers and their roles and authorial contributions in the creation of the films screened. Jim Walker speaks to Stephen Appleby, Linda Mccarthy and Will Bishop Stephens.
21st March 2010 Experimental Animation
The term Avant-garde meaning “advance guard” or “vanguard” is used to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative. Avant-garde represents a pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo. With influences coming as vitally from art, music and literature as from technology, and with experimental filmmakers defining their own paths of exploration and often crossing paths, Avant-garde in Animation filmmaking is a vast area and difficult to define.
German abstract animation filmmaker, Max Hattler tracks the progress of experimental and abstract animation from the 1920s to 2010, with a selection of films that illustrate the genre.
18th April 2010 The Channel 4 Factor
For much of the 1990s Britain regularly walked off with the world’s major animation awards, including the Oscar, Cartoon d’Or and top festival prizes. Most of the winning films were commissioned by television channels – and most of these by Channel 4. For this special edition of ‘Animated Worlds’ Clare Kitson (commissioning editor at Channel 4 from 1989 to 1999) spoke to the audience about animation’s fluctuating fortunes within the Channel. The evening also included book signing and sales.
16th May 2010 The Films of Yuri Norstein
The 8th episode of Animated worlds included the screening of all of Yuri Norstein’s films to date. Animation filmmaker Martin Pickles introduced the audience to the life and works of Yuri Norstein. For information on Martin Pickles go to: www.martinpickles.com
20th June 2010 A Celebration of Cult
A Cult film is one that has acquired a highly devoted but specific group of fans. Cult films emerge mainly from the world of Independent, B-grade and low budget cinema and generally tend to fail commercially on initial release. However, they have also sometimes been produced within Hollywood. While there are several types of Cult films, all with their own reasons for attaining cult status, what they all have in common is their ability to attract and maintain a small group of obsessive fans. Animation filmmakers Celia Galan Julve, David Retamero Lopez and Edward Suckling discuss their work with the audience.
18th July 2010 Goodbye Mr. Christie by Phil Mulloy
Good Bye Mr. Christie depicts the Christies who live in Wellington Green, a picturesque English village with a church, a pond and acricket pitch. Outwardly Mr Christie is a perfect gentleman. Inwardly he is a selfish arrogant monster. When the whole world sees him on television having sex with a French sailor, his life is changed forever. Prepare to be shocked. This film will take you from the leafy garden suburbs to hell and beyond. Q&A session with Phil Mulloy
Photographs by Suzanne Ludwig
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