[Frameworks] Experimental Animated Documentaries

adam at lafilmforum.org adam at lafilmforum.org
Wed Oct 28 17:01:01 UTC 2015 

Oh, and there is the more-recent and rather tremendous
"ownerBuilt" by Lawrence Andrews.  We showed it at Filmforum in April;
he's at UC Santa Cruz. It hasn't been shown enough.

> Some years ago I figured out a set of shows of animated documentaries.
> Not all adhere to your "non-narrative structures" request, and this is
> more than five years old, but here are some, and you can argue over my
> classification of them as docs as well (some distribution notes from my
> working document are still here)
>
> “Talking About Amy” by Yurico Murakami (200?, 8:20, USA/Japan) – video
> from USC
> “Backseat Bingo” by Liz Blazer (2003, 5:25, USA)
> “Repetition Compulsion” by Ellie Lee (1997, 7 min., 35mm, USA)
> Excerpt from “The Kid Stays in the Picture” by Nanette Burstein and
> Brett
> Morgen (2002, 93 min, US)
> “McLaren’s Negatives” by Marie-Josee Saint Pierre (2006, 11 min.,
> Canada)
> “Conversation with Haris” by Sheila Sofian (2001, 6 min, 16mm, USA) –
> print from Sheila
> “The Beloved Ones” by Samantha Moore (2007, 6 min, UK) - Big Film Shorts
> distributor
>  “Mouseholes” by Helen Hill (1999, 16mm, USA) – portrait of grandfather
> –
> print from Harvard Film Archive
> “Uncle Ma’an” by Sahar Alsawaf (2007, 4 min, video, USA/Iraq) – video
> from
> Sahar
> “The Even More Fun Trip” by Bob Sabiston (2007, 20:45, video, USA) –
> video
> from Bob Sabiston
> “The Sinking of the Lusitania” by Winsor McCay (1916, 12 min, USA.)
> “Enter Life” by Faith Hubley (1982, 6 min., USA, for Smithsonian Natural
> History museum) –
> Adventures in Music: Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom! (1953, 10 min., Disney
> Studios)
> “The Velvet Tigress” by Jen Sachs (2001, 11 min, 16mm, USA) – print
> from Jen
> Excerpt from “Shay’s Rebellion – America’s First Civil War” by R.J.
> Cutler, animation by Bill Plympton (2004, 45 min, video, USA) – video
> from
> Actual Reality
> “Forest Murmurs” by Jonathan Hodgson (2006, 12:30, UK)
> ‘Success with Sweetpeas” by Samantha Moore (2006, 6:30, UK) – Big Film
> Shorts distributor
>  “Hidden” by David Aronowitsch and Hanna Heilborn (2002, 8 min., video,
> Sweden)
> “Men in Black” segment from Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime
> Experience, by Richard Robbins (2007, 6 min., from video, USA)
> “His Mother’s Voice” by Dennis Tupicoff (1997, 15 min, 35mm, Australia)
> “Never like the First Time” by Jonas Odell (2005, 14:30, video, Sweden)
> –
> video on Wholphin #3
>  “The Moon and the Son” by John Canemaker (2004, 28 min, USA)
> “The Darra Dogs” by Dennis Tupicoff (1993, 10 min, Australia)
> “My Universe, Inside Out” by Faith Hubley (1996, 25 min, USA)
> “Passages’ by Marie-Josee Saint Pierre (2008, 25 min, Canada)
> “Doubled Up” by Samantha Moore (2004, 6:30, UK)
>  “It’s Like That” by the Southern Ladies Animation Group (2003, 7:15,
> Australia)
> “Silence,” by Sylvie Bringas and Orly Yadin (1998, 11 min, UK)
>  “Survivors” by Sheila Sofian (1997, 16 min, USA) – women survivors of
> abuse
> “Grasshopper” by Bob Sabiston (2003, 14 min, USA) – portrait of Indian
> man
> giving life wisdom
>  “Last Words of Dutch Schultz” by Gerrit van Dijk (2003, 24 min,
> Netherlands)
> “Slaves” by David Aronowitsch and Hanna Heilborn (2008, 15 min., Sweden)
> “Guy 101” by Ian Gouldstone (2005, 9 min, UK) – no reply yet
> Aardman films?
> “Pro/Con” by Joanna Priestly
> “Troubled Minds,” by Andy Glynne (12 min, UK) – or “Animated Minds”
> “Ryan,” by Chris Landreth (2004, 14 min, Canada)
> “Feeling My Way” by Jonathan Hodgson (1997, 5:34, UK)
> “Abductees” by Paul Vester (1995, 11 min, UK, ships from LA)
> “Diary Film – I Was 12 in 1956” by Boglárka Edvy and Sándor Silló
> (2006,
> 55 min, Hungary)
> Paul Fierlinger films
> Vivienne Jones
> Excerpt from ‘Chicago 10” by Brett Morgen (2008, 110 min, USA)
> Excerpts from “Persepolis” or ‘Waltz With Bashir”?
> Marshall Plan propaganda films “The Shoemaker and the Hatter”
> “Home Road Movies” by Robert Bradbrook (2001, 12 min, UK) – autobio
> “Field of Green” - Sky-David film
> “Frank Film” – won Oscar – Frank & Caroline Mouris, Won Oscar in 1974
> for
> Best Short Subject, Animated Films
>
>
>> I was hoping someone else would mention Jodie Mack’s amazing
>> experimental
>> docs (so that I might not be accused of nepotism), but in addition to
>> her
>> Dusty Stacks of Mom, which just finished its two years of touring, I’d
>> call attention to her wonderful, lesser known film Lilly, a documentary
>> about her grandmother’s experiences during WWII in England.
>>
>> http://www.jodiemack.com/filmsvideos/lilly/
>>
>> Â

>> Roger
>>
>>
>> On Oct 28, 2015, at 11:14 AM, Ruth Hayes <randomruth at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> Do check out John and Faith Hubley's films, on dvd, I believe, animated
>> to
>> their children's voices. Drew Christie has been producing short
>> nonfiction
>> animations for a while, especially for the New York TImes OpDocs. His
>> work
>> is on vimeo. Also I recently ran into a short by Christy Rupp, Macondo
>> Blowout, about deep sea oil drilling hazards.
>>
>> Finally, you could look at two of my works: Reign of the Dog: A
>> Re-Visionist History (https://vimeo.com/26890004), and On Our Way
>> (https://vimeo.com/31658076).
>>
>> Ruth Hayes
>>
>> http://www.randommotion.com<http://www.randommotion.com/>
>> blogs.evergreen.edu/hayesr<http://blogs.evergreen.edu/hayesr>
>>
>> On Oct 26, 2015, at 6:00 AM, Andrew Connor wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a friend who is looking for experimental animated documentaries
>> that follow non narrative structures, and animated documentaries which
>> function as a critique of traditional documentary techniques.
>>
>> Any suggestions for her?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Andy Connor
>> <mailto:frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com>
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