Full animation
Joanna Quinn’s performative cinema
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https://doi.org/10.34629/rcdmt.vol.2.n.2.pp5-25Keywords:
Animation, Drawing, Performance, Intermediality, NarrativeAbstract
Animation as an art form only lately began to be theorized in academia. For this reason, attempts to crystallize a definition of this practice have followed one another at the same speed as technological innovations and new aesthetic paths have emerged. The most recent proposals for reflection on animation seek to view it not as an object but as a process.I propose that beyond the features or elements usually associated with animation, we consider this art form as being essentially performative and intermedial. It is from this perspective that I analyze the work of director Joanna Quinn and different ways in which her films explore the performative possibilities of the visual arts, namely drawing, fusing them with narrative codes from other artistic traditions.
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