Tricky Women_Animations Film Kunst von Frauen / Women in Animation

Birgitt Wagner, Waltraud Grausgruber (Hg.), Schüren Verlag

Some texts are in English, some in German

DVD included („The Hat“ by Michèle Cournoyer,”Some Protection” by Marjut Rimminen, “Pleasures of War” by Ruth Lingford, “Caution, The Doors Are Opening” by Anastasia Zhuravleva, “Flawed” by Andrea Dorfman)

Renowned experts – curators, researchers, festival directors, journalists – and filmmakers look at women’s animation around the world from a wide variety of perspectives. Historical developments, regional aspects, current trends in visual arts, different techniques, … provide insights into the immensely fascinating, diverse and creative world of animation.

+ Milestones of Animation by Women + Pioneers and Newcomers + Animated Documentaries + Gaming and Animation as Subversion + New Conceptions of Animation

Authors: Franziska Bruckner (AT), Suzanne Buchan (GB), Antonia Cicero (AT), Suzanne de Castell (US), Eliška Děcká (SK), Dina Goder (RU), Sabine Groschup (AT), Jennifer Jenson (US), Esther Leslie (GB), Ruth Lingford (US), Sandra Naumann (DE), Maša Ogrizek (SI), Jayne Pilling (GB), Annegret Richter (DE), Julie Roy (CA).

DVD with awarded animations included!

Jayne Pilling
Historical Milestones: Who Gets to Tell Whose Stories? (Or…the dilemmas of programming…)

Sandra Naumann
Mary Ellen Bute: Color – Form – Movement – Sound

Ruth Lingford
Vera Neubauer: Soft Toys, Rough Treatment

Maša Ogrizek
Don’t be afraid of Freedom (Interview with Vera Neubauer)

Eliška Děcká
The Czech and Slovak New Female Wave of Animation

Sabine Groschup
Ganzheiten Maria Lassnig…

Franziska Bruckner
Tricky Women Today: Momentaufnahmen einer neuen Generation österreichischer Animationsfilmemacherinnen

Dina Goder
Drei Porträts - Regisseurinnen in der zeitgenössischen Animationsfilmkunst Russlands

Julie Roy
Metamorphosis in Michèle Cournoyer's work

Annegret Richter
Zeichnung der Wirklichkeit - Animation als dokumentarisches Mittel

Suzanne Buchan
Tricky Spaces: Animation, Installation and Spatial Politics

Jennifer Jenson, Suzanne de Castell
God Trick, Good Trick, Bad Trick, New Trick: Reassembling the Production Line

Esther Leslie
Shadowy, Shape-shifting, Shaky: Animation as Subversion

Antonia Cicero
Tricky Women: Vom Trickfilm verzaubert