On Wednesday April 18th I'll be presenting a paper at the Media Industries: Current Debates and Future Directions conference at King’s College London. My paper is on Short Animated Documentary Production in the UK. You can download the full conference programme here: media-industries.org/programme
FAFF
The Factual Animation Film Fuss is back for 2017 and I'll be hosting a panel discussion on animated documentary production, featuring three brilliant filmmakers with work in the programme: Bunny Schendler, Lizzy Hobbs and Tina Rashidi. More info here: www.faffuss.com
Under My Skin, Dir. Tina Rashidi
The Crafty Animator
In September I'll be presenting a paper at The Crafty Animator: A Conference on Handmade and Craft-based Animation. My paper is titled: Fingerprints: autobiography and authenticity in stop-motion animated documentary.
The conference will be held at the Rich Mix Cinema in Shoreditch, London on Thursday 7 September 2017. If you would like to attend please contact Dr Caroline Ruddell - caroline.ruddell@brunel.ac.uk.
FULL PROGRAMME BELOW
9: Coffee and registration
9.30 – 10.30 Keynote Address
Dr Birgitta Hosea (Title tbc) (Chaired by Dr Caroline Ruddell)
10.30 – 12: Panel 1 (Chaired by Dr Caroline Ruddell)
Giving Computer Animation the Finger (or, the importance of Ed Catmull’s hands) – Dr Christopher Holliday (King’s College London)
Zoetropes and Automata: The handcraft story of digital fabrication – Dr Tanya Marriott (Massey University, New Zealand)
Handmade Aesthetics in Animation for Adults and Children – Dr Ewan Kirkland (University of Brighton
12 – 1: Lunch
1 – 2.30: Panel 2 (chair tbc)
‘Do my fingermarks matter?’ - Sally Pearce (independent animator)
A Hand-Crafted Digital Drawing Application – Jeremy Radvan (University of Brighton)
Fingerprints: autobiography and authenticity in stop-motion animated documentary – Carla MacKinnon (Arts University Bournemouth)
2.30 – 4: Panel 3 (chaired by Dr Chris Holliday)
Materialising the Imagination: Live-Action Puppetry Meets Fantasy Fiction in Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal – Dr Alex Sergeant (Kings College London)
The puppet-puppeteer: self-reflexivity and self-recognition in puppet animation - Vincenzo Maselli (Sapienza University of Rome)
'It's Alive!' The appropriate uncanniness of stop-motion animated horror films for children – Dr Catherine Lester (University of Warwick)
4 – 4.20: Break
4.20 – 5.40: Panel 4 (chaired by Dr Ewan Kirkland)
The Reception of Lotte Reiniger in the German Press – Katharina Boeckenhoff, Manchester University
Sponsored silhouettes - the handmade advertisements of Lotte Reiniger – Tashi Petter (Queen Mary University of London)
Design Thinking and Creative Problem Solving: The Finnish Cutout Animation in the 1960s and 1970s - Tuula Leinonen Aalto University
5.40: Final remarks and close