Moving the Image was a screening and animation workshop for women, aiming to show the diversity, imagination and range in women’s animation.  Women have always had a presence in animation – many worked as tracers, painters or designers.  Some were pioneers, like Lotte Reiniger who made painstaking detailed silhouette animations such as Snow White Rose Red, (1953), a magical fairy tale. Caroline Leaf’s film The Street (1976) uses the technique of manipulated ink on a flat plate of glass, lit from beneath, and interprets reactions to a dying grandmother, capturing family feelings and distilling them. Fixation(2002) by Vicky Smith,  explores family history, witches and photographic fixations.  InSunset Strip (1996)  by Kayla Parker, over 4500 time-lapse drawings were painted directly onto 35mm film using materials such as nail varnish, hair, bleach and magnolia petals.  Hooked, (2001) by Vera Neubauer unravels and re-knits Latino life.  Sam Moore’sdoubled up (2004) tells of the shock of finding out she was expecting twins and her response.

This was a project for WAM (Women Arts and Media).  The animation workshops took place at ARC (Architecture Centre) in Hull 2007.