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Review: Desire & Sexuality: Animating the Unconscious, compiled by Jayne Pilling. DVD set (3 discs, £17.99 each) available from the British Animation Awards [http://www.britishanimationawards.com/]

Review: Desire & Sexuality: Animating the Unconscious, compiled by Jayne Pilling. DVD set (3... reviews Reviews Desire & Sexuality: Animating the Unconscious, compiled by Jayne Pilling. DVD set (3 discs, £17.99 each) available from the British Animation Awards [http://www.britishanimationawards.com/]. The triple DVD set, Desire & Sexuality: Animating the Unconscious, compiled by Jayne Pilling (organizer of the British Animation Awards) is a collection of 30 international festival-winning animated short films that engage with the wonderfully rich complexities of some of the most fundamental aspects of human experience. Animation is a form that is uniquely able to explore and express subjective experience and this DVD set demonstrates the vastness of different perspectives on matters most private and personal – from first sexual encounters to the disappointments of marriage; from memories of sexual transgressions to passions kept hidden and repressed. This diverse collection of films from around the world, produced during the last three decades, deals with a wide range of issues, using a variety of animation styles and approaches. While the DVDs are not organized in any particular way, certain repeated themes and issues become apparent. In fact, one of the pleasures of this collection is tracing the way similar issues are evoked and visualized by the different animators represented. The ability of animation to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal SAGE

Review: Desire & Sexuality: Animating the Unconscious, compiled by Jayne Pilling. DVD set (3 discs, £17.99 each) available from the British Animation Awards [http://www.britishanimationawards.com/]

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reviews Reviews Desire & Sexuality: Animating the Unconscious, compiled by Jayne Pilling. DVD set (3 discs, £17.99 each) available from the British Animation Awards [http://www.britishanimationawards.com/]. The triple DVD set, Desire & Sexuality: Animating the Unconscious, compiled by Jayne Pilling (organizer of the British Animation Awards) is a collection of 30 international festival-winning animated short films that engage with the wonderfully rich complexities of some of the most fundamental aspects of human experience. Animation is a form that is uniquely able to explore and express subjective experience and this DVD set demonstrates the vastness of different perspectives on matters most private and personal – from first sexual encounters to the disappointments of marriage; from memories of sexual transgressions to passions kept hidden and repressed. This diverse collection of films from around the world, produced during the last three decades, deals with a wide range of issues, using a variety of animation styles and approaches. While the DVDs are not organized in any particular way, certain repeated themes and issues become apparent. In fact, one of the pleasures of this collection is tracing the way similar issues are evoked and visualized by the different animators represented. The ability of animation to

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Published: Mar 1, 2009

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