TORONTO — Animated historical films like the Oscar-nominated "Waltz With Bashir," the narrative-driven "Persepolis" and innovative hybrid "Chicago 10" are redefining the concept of documentary films, with fans heralding the features as part of a powerful new genre that can be just as effective, if not more so, as docs that rely solely on traditional footage.
"Waltz With Bashir" in particular has launched a new breed of filmmaking into the spotlight by melding evocative, sometimes dreamlike illustrations of an Israeli army mission to Lebanon in the '80s with real interviews with former soldiers.
It may sound like a contradiction in terms, but there can be such a thing as an "animated documentary," says Sean Farnel of the Toronto-based Hot Docs, billed as North America's largest documentary film festival.
"All documentaries are constructed in one way or another - filmmakers have to make decisions about what they shoot for instance, they have to make decisions about what they edit. It is storytelling. It's all in the service of getting to some kind of deeper truth about something," says Farnel, Hot Doc's director of programming.
"In a film like 'Waltz With Bashir,' even though the film is animated and the visuals are still highly constructed, the story itself has a very direct connection to real events and real emotions and I think that's what gives that film its power and that's what gives documentary its power, this direct connection to real events."
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Friday, February 20, 2009
Animated documentaries come into their own as an accepted genre
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