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Para-animation in Practice and Theory: The Animateur, the Embodied Gesture and Enchantment

Para-animation in Practice and Theory: The Animateur, the Embodied Gesture and Enchantment Animateurs are characterized by liminality or, possibly more accurately, intersectionality, vis-à-vis the mainstream and the avant-garde. Their vernacular creative work points to hybrid genealogies that include analogue handmade cinema and performing arts, such as the magic lantern show, puppetry and shadow play. The author proposes that animateurs develop a distinctive practice and theory of animation that can be best understood as ‘para-animation’, i.e. a liminal, nearby, or off idea of animation that critically expands theories of the moving image and media archaeology. In para-animation, the moving image is non-medium specific, freed from both the index and the virtual, as reality is not there to be (re)presented or remade, but instead to be reconnected with. Para-animation’s uncontainable and overflowing multimedia materialities challenge film’s representational and photographic genealogy and actualize the moving image as a key location for an alternative, both embodied and enchanted, experience of the modern world. In so doing, para-animation also reveals multidirectional – across times and places – connections between animateurs and other enchanters (inventors, prestidigitators, performers, storytellers), similarly crossing and morphing boundaries between technology and magic, representation and imagination, science and art, knowledge and pleasure. Referring to a selection of animateurs’ works, this article focuses on the embodied gesture of ‘the hand on-screen’ as one of the key modalities through which para-animation re-centres the body and allows for a simultaneously technologized and de-technologized re-enchanted experience of reality. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Animation SAGE

Para-animation in Practice and Theory: The Animateur, the Embodied Gesture and Enchantment

Voci, Paola
Animation , Volume 18 (1): 19 – Mar 1, 2023
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Abstract

Animateurs are characterized by liminality or, possibly more accurately, intersectionality, vis-à-vis the mainstream and the avant-garde. Their vernacular creative work points to hybrid genealogies that include analogue handmade cinema and performing arts, such as the magic lantern show, puppetry and shadow play. The author proposes that animateurs develop a distinctive practice and theory of animation that can be best understood as ‘para-animation’, i.e. a liminal, nearby, or off idea of animation that critically expands theories of the moving image and media archaeology. In para-animation, the moving image is non-medium specific, freed from both the index and the virtual, as reality is not there to be (re)presented or remade, but instead to be reconnected with. Para-animation’s uncontainable and overflowing multimedia materialities challenge film’s representational and photographic genealogy and actualize the moving image as a key location for an alternative, both embodied and enchanted, experience of the modern world. In so doing, para-animation also reveals multidirectional – across times and places – connections between animateurs and other enchanters (inventors, prestidigitators, performers, storytellers), similarly crossing and morphing boundaries between technology and magic, representation and imagination, science and art, knowledge and pleasure. Referring to a selection of animateurs’ works, this article focuses on the embodied gesture of ‘the hand on-screen’ as one of the key modalities through which para-animation re-centres the body and allows for a simultaneously technologized and de-technologized re-enchanted experience of reality.

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Animation – SAGE

Published: Mar 1, 2023

Keywords: animateur; embodied gesture; enchantment; lightness; magic and technology; multimedia materialities; para-animation

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