Archive Episode - Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008) (with Bella Honess Roe)
Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008)
The Fantasy/Animation podcast takes listeners on a journey through the intersection between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation. Available via Apple Podcasts, Spotify and many of your favourite podcast hosting platforms!
The next archive episode of the Fantasy/Animation podcast goes all the way back to Episode 24 and the discussion of the celebrated animated documentary Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008) which featured a conversation with special guest Dr Bella Honess Roe, author of the influential book Animated Documentary (2013). Listen as the trio discuss the recent industrial and scholarly turn towards animated documentary and the medium’s capabilities for representing the real; discourses of trauma and what it means to ‘animate’ dreams and a national-cultural memory; combinations of the factual and the fantastical that are weaved throughout Ari Folman’s autobiographical narrative; and how Waltz with Bashir illustrates animation’s status as a creative medium of catharsis.
**Fantasy/Animation theme tune composed by Francisca Araujo**
**As featured on Feedspot’s 25 Best London Education Podcasts**
**As featured on MillionPodcast’s Best 10 UK Animation Podcasts and Best 60 Movie Podcasts in the UK**
Suggested Readings
Caruth, Cathy. 1995. Trauma: Explorations in Memory. Maryland: John Hopkins University Press.
Ehrlich, Nea. 2013. “Animated Documentaries: Aesthetics, Politics and Viewer Engagement.” In Pervasive Animation, ed. Suzanne Buchan, 248-252. New York: Routledge.
Landesman, Ohad, and Roy Bendor. 2011. “Animated Recollection and Spectatorial Experience in Waltz with Bashir.” animation: an interdisciplinary journal 6, no. 3 (November): 353-370.
Roe, Annabelle Honess. 2013. Animated Documentary. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Ruddell, Caroline. 2011. “‘Don’t Box Me In’: Blurred Lines in Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly.” animation: an interdisciplinary journal 7, no. 1 (2011): 7-23.
Ward, Paul. 2005. Documentary: The Margins of Reality. Chichester: Columbia University Press.