22:00 | Thursday 10.12. | film auditorium

section NON-FICTION ANIMATION

A significant representative of the non-fiction genre and a Czech emigrant, Paul Fierlinger’s work has been systematically devoted to biographical motives and factual programmes. His masterpiece is Drawn from Memory dealing with the experience of communist oppression in Czechoslovakia and the subsequent trauma of emigration. Personal history, experiences and impressions are the invariable initial, as well as target material, that Fierlinger uses within the technique and medium of animation. This miniblock will present not only Drawn from Memory, but also Still Life With Animated Dogs, A Room Nearby and a sample of an unfinished project, Sloum.

14:00 | Friday 11.12. | film auditorium

section NON-FICTION ANIMATION

lecture + screening

A lecture of Franziska Bruckner, an Austrian theoretician of animated film, about methods and approaches of the avantgarde towards animation. Part of the programme will be an interactive conversation with Ken Jacobs, a filmmaker and legendary creator of film performances. We will also screen his latest video, a documentary film about a sculptor Ron Gonzalez, in which he applied methods of intentional as well as unintentional animation error.

22:00 | Friday 11.12. | film auditorium

section NON-FICTION ANIMATION

series of films

This section maps the possibilities of using animation in non-fictional formats in all possible relations to reality (art recording, film journal, association evocation, etc.) or in effects (comedy, drama or historical tragedy). Reality might be thickened in the form of a simple outline drawing and ironical hyperbole, or it can revive painful memories of the citizens of Nazi ghettos through the animation of preserved drawings.

20:00 | Saturday 12.12. | film auditorium

section NON-FICTION ANIMATION

lecture + screening

Martin Arnold, an Austrian experimental filmmaker and visual artist, will present his appropriated films and videos, among them the concept Deanimated, in which the author uses digital technology to, for example, to clear off protagonists from Hollywood films, or he systematically re-edits those films. (Is it sarcasm or “deconstruction“ of narratology?)

22:00 | Saturday 12.12. | film auditorium

section NON-FICTION ANIMATION

series of films

Northern states are the most active power in the field of animated non-fiction. Based on mutual co-operation they use the animated format as a tool for documentary commentary of historical events, for enlightenment in the sphere of socio-political questions (e.g. gender inequality, bullying or counselling for victims of sexual violence) and for education and cultivation.

14:00 | Sunday 13.12. | film auditorium

section NON-FICTION ANIMATION

series of films

In its beginnings non-fiction animation was used particularly for educational purposes or propaganda, because it was able, in a small area and in an understandable way, to explain, ridicule or energize, as for example in the case of Anti-Nazi films with Donald Duck. Beside this it serves as a tool for reconstructing historical events that took place before the invention of film or outside its reach. The main feature differentiating the beginnings of modern narrative non-fiction is the initial tendency of animation to reach the same objectivistic status as fotorealistic recording.