During the week we discussed documentary policy and animated documentaries, learned about the history of animated documentaries, and watched and discussed some excellent animated documentaries. Animation is often use to to ‘clarify, explain, illustrate and emphasise’ (Honess Roe, 2013,: 9)
The one I really into is Waltz with Bashir is a 2008 Israeli adult animated war documentary drama film written, produced, and directed by Ari Folman. It depicts Folman’s search for lost memories of his experience as a soldier during the 1982 Lebanon War. ‘Animation, in part through its material differences from the live-action film, shifts and broadens the limits of what and how we can show about reality by offering new or alternative ways of seeing the world. It can present the conventional subject matter of documentary (the ‘world out there’ of observable events) in non-conventional subjective, conscious experience – subject matters traditionally outside of the documentary purview’ (Annabelle Honess Roe, 2013: 1) This animated documentary gives an unprecedented perspective on the war and is very impressive
Bibliography
Roe, A.H., 2013. Animated Documentary. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137017468