Representing Reality: Documentary Animation and the Archive

In the workshop, participants will explore methodological approaches to animated documentary filmmaking, with a focus on exploring new decolonial approaches that reevaluate the history of conventional archives. Creating a collage of animation that can align with fieldwork, oral histories, personal memories and indigenous knowledge systems. This is to widen discussions around the past, present and future in relation to underrepresented histories.

Participants will be introduced to an animation technique of rotoscoping, animating over archival photographs and footage that have been extracted from traditional and personal archives. Participants will create a collage of animation using a range of different materials, such as oil and chalk pastels, marker pens, tissue paper and paints. They will explore the ways that animation can be used as a living archive that confronts the legacies of colonial history. The afternoon will take the form of a collaborative and co-created short animation, produced alongside discussions around themes of migration, colonial archives, community-building and decolonisation.

Participation is free.

Registration open until 2 March under community@gewaechshaus.network

For filmmakers affected by structural racism