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‘Animating Reality’ Brings Global Short Docs to DVD

January 6, 2011 by Thomas J. McLean divider image

Indie distributor A Million Movies a Minute is bringing a unique collection of short animated documentaries to DVD as Animating Reality: A Collection of Short Documentaries.

The collection includes 13 award-winning shorts from around the globe that use a broad spectrum of animation techniques from stop-motion to collage to rotoscoping.

The trailer gives a great sense of the breadth of this collection:

The film included on the disc are:

Yoriko Murakami’s Talking About Amy explores the life and work of Japanese pop artist Emi Iijima while she resided in the States.
Corrie Francis’s Conversing with Aotearoa explores the way New Zealanders are coping with technological encroachment despite a deep sense of connection to the country’s natural beauty.
In Blue, Karma, Tiger, co-directors Mia Hulterstam and Cecilia Actis interview three young, female graffiti artists.
Samantha Moore’s The Beloved Ones is an intimate portrait of two African women living with the repercussions of AIDS.
Davina Pardo revisits one of her famous father’s unfinished animations in Birdlings Two. 
In The Last Words of Dutch Schultz, Gerrit van Dijk presents an abstract interpretation of a gangster’s final words (voiced by Rutger Hauer) from his deathbed.
In Jeanne Paturle’s and Cécile Rousset’s One Voice, One Vote, two strangers come together on the eve of a major election to discuss their personal connection to voting.
In Learned by Heart, Marjut Rimminen and Paivi Takala explore the secret history of Finland’s post-WWII legacy.
In Sold Out Marie José van der Linden and Gerrit van Dijk depict a day in the life of a family of shopkeepers as a big box store looms. 
In A Shift in Perception, Dan Monceaux gives three recently blinded women the opportunity to illustrate how their lives have changed.
Maya Yonesho presents a micro-history of architectural destruction and creation in Vienna with Wiener Wuast.
Emily Bissland’s In the Same Boat tells the story of the unlikely friendship between a racist Vietnam War vet and an Iraqi refugee who meet while hospitalized.
Eric Ledune’s Do It Yourself is a wildly funny take on a found CIA manual’s step-by-step instructions on how to torture and kill.