Animating Realities: Animation, Documentary and the Moving Image
Thursday June 23rd and Friday June 24th, 2011
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of
Art and the Edinburgh International Film Festival
Keynote Speakers: Sheila Sofian (University of
Southern California) and Paul Ward (Arts University College, Bournemouth)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Recent years have witnessed increasing interest
in the use of animation aesthetics and
production techniques to explore subject matter
traditionally deemed to be the preserve of
live-action documentary cinema. The developing
and changing nature of documentation moves away
from established forms of documentary
representation and blurs boundaries between fact
and fiction, perceived indexical authority and
subjective interpretation, the virtual and the
physical, childhood and adulthood.
Animated Realities aims to bring together
practitioners and theoreticians from a diverse
range of disciplines in order to discuss and
debate this hybrid and rapidly expanding area of
contemporary visual culture. The event comprises
a two-day conference jointly hosted by the
University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh College of
Art with a concurrent screening programme of
contemporary animated documentary work as part
of the 65th Edinburgh International Film Festival.
We invite proposals for 20-minute papers (or
themed panels of 3 presentations) on all aspects
of animated documentary art and filmmaking past
and present. Proposals for papers may include
(but are not limited to) the following areas:
? Mapping the field: the history of animated documentary filmmaaking
? Emergent and future uses of animation in a documentary contexxt
? Critical case studies of individual
documentary animators or animated documentary film works
? Animation and the amalgamation of fact
and fiction within conntemporary visual culture
? Animated documentary and trauma
? Animated documentary, time and memory
? Animated documentary and the representation of childhood
? Animated documentary and (auto)biography
? Animated documentary and re-enactment
? Animated documentary and the depiction
of mental or physical infirmity
? Animated documentary and sound
? Animated documentary, comics and the graphic novel
? Scientific applications of animated documentary
? Comparison of animated and live-action documentary modes
? The use of animated documentary material
in contemporary finee art practice
? Experimental media and the avant-garde documentary
? Presentations by film or fine art
practitioners on their own animated documentary work
Potential contributors are invited to submit a
300-word paper abstract (500 words for themed
panels) accompanied by a brief biography
(including name, institution, phone number and
e-mail) to the conference organisers, Jonathan
Murray ((jonny.murray /at/ eca.ac.uk)) and Nea Ehrlich
((N.Ehrlich /at/ sms.ed.ac.uk) ) no later than April 10th 2011.
