Persuasive, illustrative and able to get over abstract details in attractive and compelling ways, animation is the perfect tool to document someone’s vision of the truth.
These films – a selection of stylish and compelling short documentaries feature subjects as diverse as the inner workings of an East German womens’ slave labour camp, a study of computer game addiction, the history of skateboarding and the lack of female pleasure in modern day society.
Panellists
Christos Hatjoullis (Sophies Story)
Jennifer Zheng (Tough)
Kate Jessop (Little Elephant)
Adara Todd (Twiddly Things)
Anna Ginsburg (Private Parts)
At Barbican book tickets
A Brief History of Skateboarding (Antonio Vicentini, Brazil)
Surfing on the street? Might be just a crazy enough idea to catch on. The sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll version of the history.
5’00, 2015
I Was A Winner (Jonas Odell, Sweden)
Three very different stories on the subject of computer game addiction.
14’00, 2016
Micki (Izabela Plucinska & Alexander Lahl, Germany)
The story of Marienetta Jirkowsky, who was shot at the age of 18 in an attempt to escape over the Berlin Wall.
6’00, 2014
Of Slaves and Robots (Milos Tomic, Serbia)
Combining drawings, embroidery, found objects and paper collage to a speech from the Institute of Mathematics in Belgrade, about how not to be a slave or a robot.
2’00, 2016
Sophie’s Story (Christos Hatjoullis, UK)
An incredible and harrowing life journey from domestic abuse and troubled adolescence to adulthood. An exploration of addiction from a users perspective.
7’00, 2016
Tough (Jennifer Zheng, UK)
Some things can only be understood with maturity. New light is shed on childhood cultural misunderstandings when a Chinese mother and her British born daughter speak as adults for the first time.
5’00, UK
The Empty Space (Ülo Pikkov, Estonia)
A past memory, an apartment that once existed, and a small girl playing there. A reconstruction of a vision of the anxieties in the 1950s Soviet Union.
10,00, 2016
Charles Bukowski – Uncensored and Animated (Drew Christie, USA)
Other than – perhaps – Goethe no other poet has provoked as much animation as Bukowski and this no-holds-barred piece shows why.
3’00, 2014
Eye for an Eye (Steve Bache, Mahyar Goudarzi & Louise Peter, Germany)
In his own words, a double murderer speaks of his crimes and his belief that execution is all that he deserves for what he has done.
4’00, 2016
Loop (Samantha Moore, UK)
The complex and secret world of septin cytoskeleton dynamics. What can be seen and what cannot?
6’00, UK
Little Elephant (Kate Jessop, UK)
What does love mean to a British South Asian family in the West Midlands in contemporary Britain?
5’00, 2016
Twiddly Things (Adara Todd, UK)
Polly is suffering from Alzheimer’s. She explains how dementia has affected her and how she feels about the disease.
4’00, 2016
Broken – The Women’s Prison at Hoheneck (Volker Schlecht & Alexander Lahl, Germany)
Extraordinary and poignant depiction of the lives of women in an East German jail forced to make consumer goods for sale in the West.
7’00, 2016
Private Parts (Anna Ginsburg, UK)
Shedding some light on the lack of female pleasure in modern day society.
4’00, 2016
