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Animadoc 2014
Animation Hotline, 2013 Dustin Grella

A series of short animations, started in 2011, where anonymous messages on the artist's voice mail provide the content for these sometimes insightful, sometimes bizarre micro-shorts.

2013

Animation Hotline, 2013

Animadoc
USA
2013
5 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Producer
Dustin Grella
Director
Dustin Grella
Animation
Dustin Grella
A series of short animations, started in 2011, where anonymous messages on the artist's voice mail provide the content for these sometimes insightful, sometimes bizarre micro-shorts.

Places Other People Have Lived

Animadoc
USA
2011
7 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Producer
Laura Yilmaz
Director
Laura Yilmaz
Editor
Laura Yilmaz
Animation
Laura Yilmaz
Script
Laura Yilmaz
Sound
Bethany Sparks
What begins as a biography of a house, told through bittersweet and sometimes humorous personal anecdotes, ultimately raises larger questions about the emotional content of physical spaces, and what happens to our histories when we leave those places behind.
The film contains extensive photography of the filmmaker's childhood home, which was sold just a few months after the images were taken.
Animadoc 2014
Rocks in My Pockets Signe Baumane

Strong women, dominant men, restrictive systems and psychological disorders. The story of a depression, drawn and narrated with a wealth of metaphors. Full of defiant humour.

2014

Rocks in My Pockets

Animadoc
Latvia,
USA
2014
88 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Producer
Signe Baumane
Director
Signe Baumane
Music
Kristian Sensini
Editor
Wendy Cong Zhao
Animation
Signe Baumane, Sam Hayes, Jessica Polaniecki, Angela Stempel, Sturgis Warner, Eriq Wities
Script
Signe Baumane
Sound
Weston Fonger
Signe Bauman is known for her open attitude towards taboos. Her films are explicit with a funny and ironic touch. So far she has told her stories only in the short format. “Rocks in My Pockets” is her first feature-length film and probably her most personal work, for the filmmaker takes a trip into her family’s past. She herself describes her latest work as “a funny film about depression”, but it’s probably more of a story about strong, independent women, domineering men, restrictive systems and mental illnesses that none of those involved take seriously. Her grandmother died mysteriously and the family remained silent about it. Signe assumes that she killed herself for she, too, suffers from depression and three of her cousins are mentally ill.
The filmmaker animates external influences and internal states of mind for her film, tries to make her own emotions and those of her fellow sufferers comprehensible to others and explains the connections between her personal and artistic emancipation and the process of coming to terms with the family secrets.
Annegret Richter
Animadoc 2014
The Beast Inside Amy Enser, Drew Christie

Told through the power of spoken word rap and illustrated with hand-drawn animations and a muted warm colour palette, a young homeless man describes his challenges and celebrates the triumph of his creative self.

2014

The Beast Inside

Animadoc
USA
2014
4 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Producer
Lindy Boustedt
Director
Amy Enser, Drew Christie
Music
Eric Goetz
Editor
Kris Boustedt
Animation
Drew Christie
Script
Amy Enser
Sound
Mark Meseroll, Jon Goff
Told through the power of spoken word rap and illustrated with hand-drawn animations and a muted warm colour palette, a young homeless man describes his challenges and celebrates the triumph of his creative self.
Animadoc 2014
The Night Witch Alison Klayman, Dustin Grella

After the Nazis entered the Soviet Union in 1941, Nadia joined the all-female 588th Night Bomber Regiment of the Soviet Army, becoming one of the world’s first woman combat flight pilots.

2013

The Night Witch

Animadoc
USA
2013
4 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Producer
Alison Klayman, Dustin Grella
Director
Alison Klayman, Dustin Grella
Music
Ilan Isakov
Animation
Dustin Grella
Script
Dan Kitrosser, Alison Klayman
Sound
R. Hollis Smith
Nadezhda “Nadia” Popova was a 19-year-old amateur pilot when World War II came to her doorstep. After the Nazis entered the Soviet Union in 1941, Nadia joined the all-female 588th Night Bomber Regiment of the Soviet Army, becoming one of the world’s first woman combat flight pilots.