November 18 at 1:54pm

Movies I Have Wanted To Make #1

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I have a list. Okay, I admit I have many lists. And there are subsets of those many lists. And occasionally some of those subsets even overlap.

On the list of True Stories I Would Like To Find A Movie To Make Incorporating Some Of That Truth In is a small subset incorporating those true Sports stories. There’s also one that incorporates true Drug tales. And yes, as you might have guessed, there is more than one crossover between the two of those subsets.
Now I also admit it did not occur to me to turn those over to animation. I am glad someone did have that inspiration — even if they did beat to it in terms of portraying one of those key moments of intersection.
The animated documentary is quickly becoming one of my favorite film forms too: Waltz With Bashir, Ryan, I Met The Walrus, Chicago 10, and now this:

Thank you James Blagden and No Mas TV!

And thank you J. Max Ruschak for the tip!

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  • Isaac
    Thank you so much Chris and Kat.

    I shall hunt down your suggestions and greatly look forward to them.

    The story I want to tell centers around one of my best friends who is massively multiple (aka suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder). I don't want to compromise her privacy one bit, but getting to know her has been a truly incredible experience, one that has enriched my life and forced me to expand my understanding of what it actually means to be human, to have an identity and even what is truly good mental health.

    I love the idea of using animation to show her "parts" as they experience themselves as well as the internal world (worlds) they share. I want to show this incredible person in all her complexity, and do my bit to tear down the screenwriting cliche of the multiple-personality person as either villain or victim.
  • Chris Perry
    Animated non-fiction is one of my favorite forms as well. Look for Sabiston's "Snack and Drink" and "Grasshopper". Ira Glass and Chris Ware's "Lost Buildings." The Hubley's "Windy Day" (kind of). Marjut Rimminen's "Some Protection."

    I folded these films and more into a non-fiction film class I co-taught in fall 2008 at Hampshire College.

    - chris
  • Kathryn
    Couldn't agree with you more - animated documentaries. Provides a whole new aspect to the term documentary that we've never seen before. Waltz with Bashir was mesmerizing and yet keeps the audience at a safe distance from becoming too entangled in the subject matter. I Met the Walrus proves that audio can drive your story into the imaginative world of animation.

    Best,
    Kat
  • Kathryn
    Couldn't agree with you more - animated documentaries. Provides a whole new aspect to the term documentary that we've never seen before. Waltz with Bashir was mesmerizing and yet keeps the audience at a safe distance from becoming too entangled in the subject matter. I Met the Walrus proves that audio can drive your story into the imaginative world of animation.

    Best,
    Kat
  • Isaac
    "Waltz with Bashir" electrified me. After seeing it for the second time, I started to think very seriously about making my own animated documentary, and have come to see it could be the perfect form for a story I've been wanting to tell for years now.

    Aside from "Bashir," though, I can only think of "Creature Comforts" as another truly all-animated doc. Are there other animated-doc goodies that I'm missing? I'd love to know what else is out there.

    Cheers,


    Isaac.
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