Engaged practice and authorship: Inquiry into the process of animation filmmaking as a practitioner and critical researcher.

by Natalie Dekel.

I would argue that artistic ‘information’ is rushing through one’s body and mind, driving one to express in animated language of symbols and images what is ultimately a personal interpretation of subjective authorial nature.

My research aims to explore this sense of authorship through my own artistic practice, by observing my experience as an animator in the process of filmmaking. My films explore personal experiences, within commercial non-personal elements – they are script driven, narrative driven, using a strong graphic line that links them to the commercial world of animation film. In that way, I explore both the personal and the commercial aspects of animation making. Continue… (opens PDF file).

3 August 2010.
Natalie Dekel.