Animation for Live Action
‘Animation for Live Action’ is an energetic, witty and engaging film that cuts together animation and live action footage, both dramatised and documentary. Through a series of sketches that transform thought into action, the animator's fictional self comes alive and provocatively steps inside and outside the frame, representing a woman's outer reality becoming undermined in favour of an interior reality. As the animator and her cartoon woman struggle for power, notions of representation, identity and creativity for women become the focus.
An excellent interrogation of feminist film in general... Nothing is taken for granted, including the authority of representation itself.
– Mandy Merck, Time Out
Description source: Cinenova Catalogue (1994). Edited by Kate Norrish. Editorial committee: Elaine Burrows, Liane Harris, Helen de Witt
