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Saturday 21 June, 7.00pm acmi cinema 1
18+
When you think about it, animation is a great tool
for creating documentaries. Perhaps the camera couldn’t be
present during the action; perhaps the action is invisible to a
live action camera or maybe the documentary ‘story’
just needs some extra special style to make it compelling or easier
to understand.
This collection of films – some recent, some
dating back to the earlier days of cinema – make best use
of the fluid and imaginative properties of animation to get their
stories across.
They employ a wide array of techniques ranging
from meticulously hand drawn across the scale to a variety of digital
styles. And they embrace subjects as diverse as attempts at ‘teaching’
computers to speak to an animated interview with John Lennon and
ancient descriptions of how sound was originally recorded onto the
first talkies.
Also see > Gems
from the Vault
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