This book discusses developments and continuities in experimental animation that, since Robert Russet and Cecile Starr’s Experimental Animation: Origins of a New Art (1976), has proliferated in the context of expanded cinema, performance and live ‘making’ and is today exhibited in galleries, public sites and online.

1.Introduction, Vicky Smith and Nicky Hamlyn.- 2. Lines and Interruptions in Experimental Animation, Simon Payne.- 3. Performing the Margins of the New, Dirk de Bruyn.- 4. 21st Century Flicker: Jodie Mack, Benedict Drew and Sebastian Buerkner, Barnaby Dicker.- 5. Experimental Time-lapse Animation and the Manifestation of Change and Agency in Objects, Vicky Smith.- 6. Analogon: Of A World Already Animated, Sean  Cubitt.- 7. Space and Material: The Virtual Object in Early CGI Art, Alex Jukes.- 8. Just about Film: Bruce McClure, Guy Sherwin and the Resurgence of Celluloid Sound Projections, Nicky Hamlyn.-9.-  Re-Splitting, De-Syncronising, Re-Animating: (E)motion, Neo-spectacle and Innocence in the film-works of John Stezaker, Paul Wells.- 10.  Cut to Cute: Fact, Form, and Feeling in Digital Animation, Johanna Gosse.- 11.  Into the post feminist doll house: Animation, Installation and Mushi, Suzanne Buchan.- 12. Intermediality in the tableaux vivants in  Magic Mirror (75min, 2013) and Confessions To The Mirror (2016), Sarah Pucill.- 13. Siting Animation: the Affect of Place, Birgitta Hosea.

This book discusses developments and continuities in experimental animation that, since Robert Russet and Cecile Starr’s Experimental Animation: Origins of a New Art (1976), has proliferated in the context of expanded cinema, performance and live ‘making’ and is today exhibited in galleries, public sites and online. With reference to historical, critical, phenomenological and inter-disciplinary approaches, international researchers offer new and diverse methodologies for thinking through these myriad animation practices. This volume addresses fundamental questions of form, such as drawing and the line, but also broadens out to encompass topics such as  the inter-medial, post-humanism, the real, fakeness and fabrication, causation, new forms of synthetic space, ecology, critical re-workings of cartoons, and process as narrative. This book will appeal to cross and inter-disciplinary researchers, animation practitioners, scholars, teachers and students from Fine Art, Film andMedia Studies, Philosophy and Aesthetics.

Winner of the 2018-2019 Norman McLaren/Evelyn Lambart Award for Best Scholarly Book in Animation Offers arguments and insights from both practical and theoretical perspectives Engages the novel methodology of crossing experimental animation with expanded cinema Includes B&W and full colour images of all works discussed Is the only collection dedicated exclusively to the topic since 1976