Anastasiia Gushchina – Towards a Materialist Theory of Animated Documentary

Introduction In the last two decades, cinema scholars have noted the proliferation of documentary animation – a film genre that blends factual content with a fictional form and frequently aims to show ‘unrepresentable’ human experiences (Formenti 1; Honess Roe, Animated Documentary 22-26). I would like to acknowledge that this definition is quite broad, and it […]

JS Wu – Hand of Artist, Voice of Griot: A Poetics of African Animation in the Films of Jean-Michel Kibushi

Préserver la tradition orale dans un monde moderne et transmettre l’héritage culturel de l’Afrique à des jeunes par le biais de l’audiovisuel et de la rencontre des cultures, telle est ma préoccupation fondamentale en tant que réalisateur. To preserve the oral tradition in a modern world and to transmit the cultural heritage of Africa to […]