Watch the full talk here: https://docuspace.org/eng/project/dokumentalna-animaciya�vikliki-ta-mozhlivosti Even though the first animated documentary (The Sinking of the Lusitania) was released in 1918, the genre was considered as a paradox for a long time, and needed a couple of quite powerful�breakthroughs���Waltz...
Watch the full talk here: https://docuspace.org/eng/project/dokumentalna-animaciya�vikliki-ta-mozhlivosti
Even though the first animated documentary (The Sinking of the Lusitania) was released in 1918, the genre was considered as a paradox for a long time, and needed a couple of quite powerful�breakthroughs���Waltz with Bashir�and�Flee ��to win recognition from the wider audience and industry decision-makers.�Today animation�s use in documentary filmmaking has truly flourished. More and more filmmakers are finding their creative freedom and new exciting challenges in this genre.�
DocuDays UA, a Ukranian Human Rights Film Festival, invited Piotr Kardas, a film curator specialising in animated documentaries, and Alex Widdowson, a London-based multi-award-winning animated documentary director and researcher specialising in the representation of neurodivergence and psychology,�to talk about how documentary and animation can be used and mixed creatively in filmmaking, as well as how to find a balance between the seemingly limitless potential of animation and the duty of a documentary filmmaker to create authentic and ethical representations of people and the world.
PARTICIPANTS:
Piotr Kardas (moderator): the founder and director of the O!PLA Animation Film Festival and many other festivals, including the animated documentary festival Raising of the Lusitania
Alex Widdowson (guest speaker): multi-award-winning British animated documentary filmmaker, the director of the Factual Animation Film Festival, a co-host of the Autism through Cinema Podcast, and a Ph.D. candidate at Queen Mary University of London, researching animated documentary ethics.
