Animation for Live Action
‘Animation for Live Action’ splices together animation, live action and documentary footage to deal with ideas about women, film, fantasy, desire and power within everyday life. 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, and so-called “real” street scenes are ironically subverted by an apparent “fantasy” animation, notions of representation, identity and women’s creativity come into 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 compiled in 2026 by Jess Higgins, using sources: Cinenova catalogue (1994) edited by Kate Norrish, and Circles catalogue (circa 1983) compiled by Helen MacKintosh and Margaret Gillan.
