Sunday, December 11, 2011

What Animal Are You?

What Animal Are You? is a short, animated documentary directed by Kate Matthews and Dell Stewart.



It began as a series of animation workshops with children aged 6-12 at Artplay, a children’s art centre in Melbourne, Australia. We encouraged children to reflect on their personal qualities and express these through self-portraits as animals. They designed animal characters and each had an opportunity to animate their character using traditional cut out animation. We also interviewed each child about why they chose their animal.

We hoped to create an opportunity for self-reflection and an introduction to animation principles and techniques. Later we edited the voices and animation together and screened the portraits as a collection for all the workshop participants.

The children were only with us for a short time and we were delighted with the variety, personality and charm in their results. Their self-portraits are colourful, contemplative and sometimes surprising.

We are so excited about the results that we have created this short film for festival audiences, using a small selection of the children’s work. We will post here with updates of the premiere and any further screenings.

Friday, July 8, 2011

Federation Square




Make sure you catch the screenings at Fed Square this School Holidays. Each day at 10am, Midday and 2pm. It's great to see your work on the big screen!





Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Screening at Fedsquare

We are very pleased to announce the first screenings of our workshop results. Throughout the school holidays from 4 - 10 July.

The animations will be on the Federation Square Big Screen at 10am, 12 noon and 3pm each day - all 4 workshop day films together, plus separately at other miscellaneous times throughout the day. If you are in the neighbourhood check it out!

Also check back soon for videos here!