My Name Is Danny
Indigenous Animation as Hyper-Realism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3774341 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer L Biddle (Visual Anthropology & Visual Culture, National Institute for Experimental Art (NIEA), University of New South Wales Art & Design, Paddington Campus, Cnr Oxford St. & Greens Rd. Paddington, NSW 2021, Australia), Jennifer Biddle (0000-0002-0962-4552, UNSW Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 105-113 |
| Publication date | 2015-07-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Angelaki (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0969-725X • E-ISSN: 1469-2899 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0969725x.2015.1065127 |
| OpenAlex | W1506638277 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 14 |
This paper offers a close reading of PAW Media animation 'My Name is Danny'. Drawing across a growing body of recent Central and Western Desert experimental cinema, this paper asks what is at stake in the turn to animation. Rather than escapism or otherworldly fabrications which have little to do with lived experience of the “real,” animation in this context has potent everyday exigencies and politics. The capacity for bringing to life literally - animate - is here linked to the primacy of a sentient landscape; an object world already alive and enlivened with motion, movement, sensation. The question for contemporary filmmaking (as indeed, for other forms of remote experimental Indigenous art) is how to engage country and its viscera today. How to keep country/Ancestor/story alive literally through sentient forms of affective exchange; a project which animation, as this paper will explore, uniquely provides. Drawing on the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze, as well as the animation theory of Cholodenko, Lemarre and others, this paper argues for a radical reconsideration of animation not as incompatible with tradition but in fact as facilitating traditional ontologies of affect and sensation in a national context of remote Aboriginal Australia “under occupation
Aesthetics · Animation · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Indigenous · Movie theater · Object (grammar · Phenomenology (philosophy · Sociology · Visual arts · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Philosophy · Photography and Visual Culture
| Citations per year | 0.22 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2018 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |