Disciplina European Heritage in Animation

The main goals are: discuss concepts linked to documentary such as "truth", "authenticity", and "reality"; analyze how documentary has often been appropriated in Western culture in a capitalist and colonialist ideology to produce "documents" of cultural legitimization; discuss documentary as a filmic language; analyze the role of animation in its relationship with documentary. In the last class of the semester, the students will be aware that a film needs special cares after its production and distribution. They will learn the principles of Animation Preservation from the materiality of the film until our contemporary digital era. They will acquire a basic knowledge about conservation, restoration and dissemination of the Animation Heritage. - By deconstructing commonplaces about documentary filmmaking, students are able to recognize the characteristics of documentary so that they can apply them to the films they will make in the future.