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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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Spanish animation director and artist Alberto Vázquez discusses his feature film Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (Psiconautas) and his artistic style and mandate at Zippy Frames. He seems to be unstoppable. Spanish animation director, illustrator and...
- Type: Article
- Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
- Category: Interviews
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Mikhail Gurevich interviews the acclaimed Polish animation filmmaker Mariusz Wilczyński. Surprisingly or not, ‘Kill It and Leave This Town’, of (still) a rather rare breed of truly auteur animated features – idiosyncratic to the extreme and almost...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mikhail Gurevich
- Category: Interviews
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Kropka interviews the Oscar-nominated animation director Sara Gunnarsdóttir on 'My Year of Dicks'. Based on the memories by Pamela Ribon, 'Notes to Boys: And Other Things I Shouldn't Share in Public' and produced by FX, a subsidiary of Disney...
- Type: Article
- Author: Kropka
- 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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Romanian acclaimed director Anca Damian talks to Zippy Frames about her animation work and online content during the framework of the IndieOnline 2020 research project. How do you navigate a world of altogether digital content as an animation...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Interviews
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Eliane Gordeeff talks to Maja Gehrig, a Swiss animation artist, and creator-director of 'Average Happiness', the short highlighted at Ars Eletronica 2020, and at many other festivals. This talk is part of our Swiss Animation Portraits 2022 series. Maja...
- Type: Article
- Author: Eliane Gordeeff
- Category: Interviews
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The Best Animation Shorts of 2023https://www.zippyframes.com/news/awards/top-animation-shorts-2023
Our best animation shorts of 2023 are here. Find out all 16 animation films selected by our contributors. The top animation shorts of the year (here 2023) are a useful notion, both a celebratory one and a chance to highlight the year's most eloquent...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Awards & Prizes
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Julia Lewicka talks to Swiss animation artists Sam and Fred Guillaume (CIne3D) in our Swiss Animation Portrait Series 2022. Sam and Fred Guillaume have worked together as a duo in the animation industry since 1998, creating many works that encompass a...
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- Category: Interviews
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Find the top animation shorts of 2019, as voted by animation professionals. We did it again. After the successful run of the 2016 top animation shorts at Zippy Frames (where Blind Vaysha by Theodore Ushev and Nighthawk by Spela Cadez shared the top...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Awards & Prizes
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Julia Lewicka speaks with the director of the Oscar-shortlisted film 'Only A Child,' Simone Giampaolo, as part of our Swiss Animation Portrait Series 2022. Simone Giampaolo is a London-based Swiss director and animator with a variety of projects under...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Interviews
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Acid Rain took the Grand Prix of Stutgart International Festival of Animated Film. Find all winners of the 2020 edition. One more grand prix for Tomek Popakul in Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, and his Eastern European travelogue of...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Festivals
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Eliane Gordeeff speaks with Raúl de la Fuente, co-director of Another Day of Life. Now that History seems to repeat itself, it is interesting to observe the story of the war correspondent Ryszard Kapuscinski (1932 - 2007). This is the motto of the film...
- Type: Article
- Author: Eliane Gordeeff
- Category: Interviews
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Eliane Gordeeff interviews the acclaimed Spanish animation artist and director of 'Birdboy', 'Unicorn Wars' Alberto Vázquez. I had the opportunity to interview Alberto Vázquez, one of the most prominent Spanish animators and illustrators, who was...
- Type: Article
- Author: Eliane Gordeeff
- Category: Interviews
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Joseph Norman reports for Zippy Frames from the Encounters Film Festival, Bristol, UK 2020. This year';s (entirely online) Encounters Film Festival included a breadth of animation, with many films exploring unusual, adult oriented themes and deploying...
- Type: Article
- Author: Joseph Norman
- Category: Festivals



