- Choosing a work screened in the session or one of your choices, discuss how it would or wouldn’t be classed as a documentary, applying Honess Roes’ ‘Taxonomy for documentary’ and what arguments presented by Nichols or Formenti might question that definition.
- 100-150 words
‘Waltzing With Bashir’ Is The First Animated Film To Be Nominated For Best Foreign Language Oscar. It is also a work that sparked the discussion of “whether animated documentaries are authentic”. In terms of content, some directors have transformed live-action interviews into animated forms. Animation is also used to provide reproduction of irreversible scenes, at the end of the film, the 70-second real shot also. It’s not falsified memories that set the stage.
According to Honess Roe, something can be considered to be an animated documentary if it fulfills the following criteria.has been recorded or created frame by frame is about the world rather than a world wholly imagined by its creator has been presented as a documentary by its producers and/or received as a documentary by audiences, festivals or critics development of the animated documentary as a form in its own right.