Animated Realities.

Animated Realities.

Genre

Animation, Shorts

Director

Victor Orozco Ramirez, Nancy Kangas, Josh Kun, Éloïc Gimenez, Ana Pérez López, The Brothers McLeod, Stéphanie Vasseur, Sandrine Terragno, Samuel Patthey, Raphaële Bezin

Run time

1h 13min

The oldest example in animated realities (hybrid of animation and documentary) is considered to be The Sinking Of Lusitania (1918) by Winsor McCay. This film recreates the tragic sinking of the passenger ship Lusitania on the Atlantic ocean in 1915 with the means of animation.

However the real flame that started animated realities as a genre and the explosive spread started only after the production of animated films became digital and the production of one of the most marginal films responsible for the boom of animated realities that is still going on, was Ari Folmans’ Waltz with Bashir (2018).

But what is animated realities?

Animations theoretic Steve Reinke has opened the concept of an “animated realities” as follows: “[...] if the same images were live-action, and filmed 24 frames per second, we would have a documentary”.

By uniting animation and documentary a unique combination of visualised mind and real world is created. Growing popularity of animated realities also describes our changed views of documentary and portrayal of reality. Animated realities is a genre for the future people and cyborgs.

Ülo Pikkov

Genre

Animation, Shorts

Director

Victor Orozco Ramirez, Nancy Kangas, Josh Kun, Éloïc Gimenez, Ana Pérez López, The Brothers McLeod, Stéphanie Vasseur, Sandrine Terragno, Samuel Patthey, Raphaële Bezin

Run time

1h 13min

The oldest example in animated realities (hybrid of animation and documentary) is considered to be The Sinking Of Lusitania (1918) by Winsor McCay. This film recreates the tragic sinking of the passenger ship Lusitania on the Atlantic ocean in 1915 with the means of animation.

However the real flame that started animated realities as a genre and the explosive spread started only after the production of animated films became digital and the production of one of the most marginal films responsible for the boom of animated realities that is still going on, was Ari Folmans’ Waltz with Bashir (2018).

But what is animated realities?

Animations theoretic Steve Reinke has opened the concept of an “animated realities” as follows: “[...] if the same images were live-action, and filmed 24 frames per second, we would have a documentary”.

By uniting animation and documentary a unique combination of visualised mind and real world is created. Growing popularity of animated realities also describes our changed views of documentary and portrayal of reality. Animated realities is a genre for the future people and cyborgs.

Ülo Pikkov

Info

Rating

(none)

Production year

2018

Global distributor

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Local distributor

Pimedate Ööde Filmifestival MTÜ

In cinema

11/24/2018