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Olga Bobrowska critically analyzes the new European Animation Awards nominations and the status of the awards themselves in the contemporary animation scene. The 2017 festival season comes to an end, but there is still one more thrill awaiting the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Olga Bobrowska
- Category: Awards & Prizes
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Stop motion filmmaker Irida Zhonga discusses Jan Svankmajer in the context of Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of 'the grotesque body'. [The article won the Honorable Mention in the Maureen Furniss Awards 2021 for the Best Student Papers on Animation Media,...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Academic
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Mikhail Gurevich reports from the latest edition of Animafest Zagreb. Again, obliged to say, I haven’t had a chance to observe this edition of Animafest Zagreb (June 2-7) in person and, again, obliviously, missing the ‘life dynamics’, atmosphere and...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mikhail Gurevich
- Category: Festivals
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Olga Bobrowska reviews the most recent achievements of the Chinese animation independent and industry scene. The year 2017 (a year of the Rooster) was symbolic for Chinese animation. Exactly 60 years earlier, this art was officially endowed with...
- Type: Article
- Author: Olga Bobrowska
- Category: Production
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Olga Bobrowska reports from the 2022 edition of the Hungarian Anilogue animation festival. In the very center of Budapest – just a few minute-walking distances between the Hungarian State Opera and St. Stephen's Basilica – one finds Toldi Cinema, a...
- Type: Article
- Author: Olga Bobrowska
- Category: Festivals
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Eliane Gordeeff chats with Alexandra Ramires, a Portuguese animator, during the Quirino Awards 2021. Alexandra Ramires is the award-winning director of Tie (Elo) an animation short, which received the award from the National Animation Prize (PNA,...
- Type: Article
- Author: Eliane Gordeeff
- Category: Interviews
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Andreas Hykade talks to Zippy Frames about his new film, Altötting. German animation artist /filmmaker Andreas Hykade is a well-known name in the festival world, and his influence among emerging filmmakers seems to grow as the years go by. As his CV...
- Type: Article
- Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
- Category: Interviews
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Oscar-nominated UK animation director Joanna Quinn and Les Mills talk to Zippy Frames about their new addition in the Beryl canon, Affairs of the Art. World premiering at Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival this February, the new animation...
- Type: Article
- Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
- Category: Interviews
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Eliane Gordeeff interviews the producers of the much-awaited 'They Shot The Piano Player' animation feature by Fernando Trueba & Javier Mariscal, which has its San Sebastian world premiere this September. I had the opportunity to talk with 'They Shot...
- Type: Article
- Author: Eliane Gordeeff
- Category: Feature Animation
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Sometimes it's good to revisit your own history. Zippy Frames talks with the creative team behind the acclaimed animation short Kapaemahu by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson. It is one of those animation shorts that bring you back in...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Shorts
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Marbles by Natalia Spychałahttps://www.zippyframes.com/shorts/marbles-natalia-spychala
Polish animation director Natalia Spychała presents her Marbles stop-motion short to Olga Bobrowska and Zippy Frames. The hypnotizing pendulum sets a particular mechanism in motion. A body, space and variety of objects form a rhythmic system of...
- Type: Article
- Author: Olga Bobrowska
- Category: Shorts
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Vassilis Kroustallis reports from the 15th StopTrik International Film Festival on stop-motion animation. StopTrik Festival has solidified itself as one of the most interesting animation festivals to attend -and not just because it's the only European...
- Type: Article
- Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
- Category: Festivals
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Amanda Barbour (aka Rogue Kangaroo) talks to Anais Caura about her medium-length film debut, The Man Woman Case (2017). After making its rounds on the European, Latin American, and North American film festival circuit, The Man Woman Case (2017) has...
- Type: Article
- Author: Amanda Barbour
- Category: Interviews
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Flóra Anna Buda talks to Zippy Frames within the framework of the Indie Online 2020 research project. Hungarian animation director Flóra Anna Buda first entered the international animation film circuit with her graduation film, 'Entropia', which...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Interviews
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Copenhagen based animation director Julie Baltzer talks to Zippy Frames within the framework of the Indie Online 2020 research project. Julie Baltzer is one of the emerging voices of independent animation in Denmark. She graduated from The Animation...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Interviews



