Class Animated Documentary

This course involves planning, producing, and implementing a documentary film, encouraging students to explore the role of animated images as a means of investigating the world around them/uniquely expressing reality as perceived by them. Through group work, the aim is to question the possibilities offered by cinema, in its animated forms, also in conveying stories/feelings/sensations, directly or indirectly experienced by them, as starting points. work will be supported by documentary, journalistic, or pedagogical strategies, but always original, on what surrounds us, using animation as a mediating element between constructed discourse and reality. The combination of techniques is encouraged. During this semester, the students shall learn to go from idea to project development and leading to producing a finished film.The relationship between the chosen theme and the end film must be comprehensible and cinematic, whilst respecting the personal views demonstrated by the groups.  

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1. Questions of image ontology: the real image and the animated image 2. Realism and documentary: is the documentary a record of reality or a construction of a particular vision of reality? Or both? 3. Can animated cinema "document" reality? What can animated documentary bring forth that is not available in live action documentary? 4. Strategies for using animation in a documentary context.  

These classes will be taught in person, but when necessary and appropriate, tutoring classes may be taught via video conferencing.    

Adams (2009), "When Docs Get Graphic_ Animation Meets Actuality", in https://www.documentary.org/feature/when-documentaries-get-graphic-animation-meets-actuality  Formenti, C (2022) The Classical Animated Documentary and its Contemporary Evolution, Bloomsbury Honess Roe (2013), Animated Documentary. Hampshire: Palgrave MacMillan  Honess Roe (2016), "Against Animated Documentary" in https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijfma/article/view/5433 Serrazina (2020), "Notes towards the use of a documentary approach in the teaching of animation", in https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijfma/article/view/5437  Sofian (2005), "The truth in pictures", in https://animateddocs.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/sheila-sofian-writes-about-anima-doc-in-fps-magazine/ ¿