[ecrea] CFP - animated documentary

> Apologies for cross-posting.
>
> Please see below for a cfp for a panel I am 
> chairing on animated documentary at this year's 
> Visible Evidence conference (9th - 12th August 
> in Istanbul - http://visibleevidence.org/).
>
> Please submit a 300-word proposal with author 
> bio to (a.honessroe /at/ surrey.ac.uk) by 12th March
>
>
> Documentary-animation hybrids have existed since 
> the early days of cinema.  The last twenty to 
> thirty years, however, have seen a boom in the 
> production of this type of non-fiction and the 
> breadth of examples continues to widen as 
> animation is used in a variety of contexts ­ 
> from recovering a traumatic past in Waltz with 
> Bashir, to reconstructing history in Battle 360, 
> and expressing subjective states of mind in 
> Animated Minds.  Recently, the form has been 
> gaining increasing attention from critics and 
> scholars, as demonstrated by the rising number 
> of papers on animated documentary at documentary 
> and animation conferences worldwide, and it 
> feels as if this topic is on the cusp of 
> becoming a key area of documentary studies.
>
> This panel proposes to contribute to the growing 
> scholarly dialogue around animated documentaries 
> by going beyond merely remarking at their 
> existence or marvelling at how opposites 
> attract.  This panel will interrogate 
> fundamental questions raised by the convergence 
> of animation and documentary and address how 
> this challenges some of the foundational 
> assumptions regarding documentary.  In 
> particular, issues regarding epistemology, 
> aesthetics, ethics and audience affect are 
> thrown into new relief through the animation of documentary.
>
> Potential paper topics could include:
> -       The history of the convergence of animated documentary
> -       Animating subjective states of minds and personal experience
> -       Documenting unseen and unwitnessable events
> -       CGI animation and natural history and science documentaries
> -       Indexicality and iconicity
> -       The significance of sound in animated documentary
> -       The ethics of animated documentary
> -       Processes of production
> -       The relationship between animation technique/ style and content
>
>
>
> Dr. Bella Honess Roe
> Lecturer - Film Studies
> Department of Dance, Film and Theatre
> University of Surrey
> Guildford
> Surrey GU2 7XH
> +44 (0)1483 683049

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