The contemporary animation festival ANIMASIVO was established in 2007 to give Mexico City a space for reflecting on and disseminating animated films. It was the first festival devoted exclusively to animated films in the country and is currently a point of reference in Latin America for independent and auteur animated films. ANIMASIVO’s team has worked to generate new approaches, new ways of making moving images and new ways of sharing and enjoying them.
With the support of AC/E through its internationalisation programme, Animasivo 2015 has invited the Spanish filmmaker Lourdes Aimé Villagómez to teach a hand-drawn animation workshop based on series of photograms produced using various techniques on the theme of violence in Mexico. For the workshop she takes as a pretext and point of departure existing animated cinema or video sequences and key moments of common visual memory (cartoons, films from the golden age in Mexican cinema, TV soaps…) that can be catalysts for reflecting on how death and violence are part of Mexicans’ everyday life.
The end product is a collective short film lasting approximately two minutes and a series of gif documents that can be shared on the Internet. The workshop is an introduction to the production of independent animated films. The information, resources and knowledge it provides enables participants to subsequently create their own animated videos or gifs.
With the support of AC/E through its internationalisation programme, Animasivo 2015 has invited the Spanish filmmaker Lourdes Aimé Villagómez to teach a hand-drawn animation workshop based on series of photograms produced using various techniques on the theme of violence in Mexico. For the workshop she takes as a pretext and point of departure existing animated cinema or video sequences and key moments of common visual memory (cartoons, films from the golden age in Mexican cinema, TV soaps…) that can be catalysts for reflecting on how death and violence are part of Mexicans’ everyday life.
The end product is a collective short film lasting approximately two minutes and a series of gif documents that can be shared on the Internet. The workshop is an introduction to the production of independent animated films. The information, resources and knowledge it provides enables participants to subsequently create their own animated videos or gifs.