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Everything’s For You: Reflections on Animating a ‘Fierce and Inexorable Bond’1

Everything’s For You: Reflections on Animating a ‘Fierce and Inexorable Bond’1 416610 ANMXXX10.1177/1746847711416610RavettAnimation: An Interdisciplinary Journal Article Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 6(3) 325 –334 Ever ything’s For You: Reflections © The Author(s) 2011 Reprints and permission: on Animating a ‘Fierce and sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1746847711416610 anm.sagepub.com Inexorable Bond’ Abraham Ravett Keywords Abraham Ravett, animated drawing, animation/documentary hybrids, collaboration, Emily Hubley, Ever ything’s For You, experimental documentary, filmmaker’s personal statement, holocaust, image/ text essay During the late 1980s, I was working on Everything’s For You (1989), an autobiographical, non- fiction, 16mm film that explored the complex relationship with my recently deceased father. Part of the footage I used was shot in the previous decade. However, in the process of constructing the film, I wanted to include several memories from my childhood in Israel and teenage years in Brooklyn, NY. I combined reflexive, participatory, observational, and performative modes of representation (Nichols, 1991, 2001). The film embraced a variety of elements, different registers of material, to embody those experiences that were now in memory and the imagination, while attempting to present a past for which there are no images. In tandem with traditionally filmed conversations conducted with my father in the mid-1970s, some of the materials that I used included family memorabilia, photographs animated http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal SAGE

Everything’s For You: Reflections on Animating a ‘Fierce and Inexorable Bond’1

Ravett, Abraham
Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal , Volume 6 (3): 10 – Nov 1, 2011
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416610 ANMXXX10.1177/1746847711416610RavettAnimation: An Interdisciplinary Journal Article Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 6(3) 325 –334 Ever ything’s For You: Reflections © The Author(s) 2011 Reprints and permission: on Animating a ‘Fierce and sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1746847711416610 anm.sagepub.com Inexorable Bond’ Abraham Ravett Keywords Abraham Ravett, animated drawing, animation/documentary hybrids, collaboration, Emily Hubley, Ever ything’s For You, experimental documentary, filmmaker’s personal statement, holocaust, image/ text essay During the late 1980s, I was working on Everything’s For You (1989), an autobiographical, non- fiction, 16mm film that explored the complex relationship with my recently deceased father. Part of the footage I used was shot in the previous decade. However, in the process of constructing the film, I wanted to include several memories from my childhood in Israel and teenage years in Brooklyn, NY. I combined reflexive, participatory, observational, and performative modes of representation (Nichols, 1991, 2001). The film embraced a variety of elements, different registers of material, to embody those experiences that were now in memory and the imagination, while attempting to present a past for which there are no images. In tandem with traditionally filmed conversations conducted with my father in the mid-1970s, some of the materials that I used included family memorabilia, photographs animated

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