Author Archive for: ‘Paul Atkinson & Simon Cooper’

Untimely Animations: Waltz with Bashir and the Incorporation of Historical Difference

Waltz with Bashir (Israel 2008) concerns itself with time on a number of formal and thematic levels, from its investigation of history to the use of animation to allow the recreation of an otherwise visually inaccessible past.  The animated documentary’s plot interweaves historical and personal time in the form of Israeli soldiers remembering, or attempting to remember, their involvement in …

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