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Animated Change: Women and Genderqueer Animators
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Abstract

This article discusses animated documentaries as a feminist artistic practice. It explores the production practices of independent animated documentaries produced by women and considers existing concerns around commercial animation industry practices historically associated with feminized labour. This article argues that animated documentaries produced by female artists implement hybrid aesthetics and follow broader production trends of multidisciplinary feminist art. Specifically, I focus on the female artists’ commitment to material aesthetics through their use of stop-motion. I examine the effects production environments have on the look of the finished films and on our understanding of labour practices that shape the animation industry. Here, I turn to (2018) and (2020), the films that offer female perspectives on the topics of identity, memory and craft, while the contexts of their production position animated documentaries among feminist art practices.

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Animated documentary as a feminist practice
Animation Practice, Process & Production 13, 33 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1386/ap3_00052_1
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Keyword(s): animation production; feminist art; material-based animation; materialist aesthetics; non-fiction animation; stop-motion

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