![]() What emerges is both a new methodology for thinking about animation, the idea of frame-by-frame analysis, and a highly original account of an art formed on the assembly line. FRAME BY FRAME, the documentary on Afghanistan’s fight for a free media and developing trend of photography after years of restriction under the Taliban is s. Four Afghan photographers attempt to reshape the narrative of Afghanistan and their history through the photographic image. This new consideration of the materiality of the medium analyzes cartoons frame by frame to expose hitherto unseen qualities of the image. Frame by Frame combines vérité, interviews and never-before-seen archival footage to showcase four Afghan photojournalists documenting their war-torn country. The book covers the different technologies of reproduction involved in this process, from photography to xerography, as well as the idiosyncrasies of the image-from abstract imagery to mistakes in reproduction-that can be seen only when the film is halted. Frame by Frame is a feature documentary by Mo Scarpelli and Alexandria Bombach. With collective experience shooting non-fiction stories in more than 20 countries around the world, they teamed up to raise 75,000 for the film on Kickstarter, and then returned to Afghanistan in 2013 to find more in-depth perspective of Afghanistan through the eyes of local photojournalists. This new consideration of the materiality of the medium analyzes cartoons frame by frame to expose hitherto unseen qualities of the image. In order to understand how the industrial mode of production influenced the medium’s visual style, this book regards each frame of a given animated cartoon as a historical document in its own right. ![]() ![]() ![]() For most of the twentieth century, the making of animated cartoons was mechanized and standardized to allow for high-volume production: thousands of drawings were inked and painted onto individual transparent celluloid sheets (called "cels") and then photographed in succession, a labor-intensive process that was divided across scores of artists and technicians, most of them anonymous. Mos first documentary FRAME BY FRAME, shot in Afghanistan, screened at SXSW Film Festival, Hot Docs, BFI London Film Festival, AFI DOCS and 120+ other festivals. ![]()
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