animationstudies 2.0

In the fall of 2024, I had the privilege of attending Chilemonos, the inaugural Vancouver edition of the long-running Chilean animation festival dedicated to fostering connections between Latin American and Canadian animation cultures. The festival’s culminating event was the round tabl...

Latin American animation has received significant attention at festivals and trade fairs since the advent of the internet and the computerization of production methods. It has challenged the dominant ways of seeing and creating space for alternative worldviews and visual sensibilities through narratives dealing with political repression, historical trauma, and collective memo...

Vivienne Barry’s Como alitas del chincol (2002) is an animated documentary that dramatizes the contradictory roles of the arpilleristas as women engaged in both domestic craft and politi...

For decades, the audiovisual consumption of Disney animated classics in the Spanish-speaking world was defined by a centralized dubbing model that prioritized economic profitability and private market over regional linguistic diversity (Iglesias Gómez, 2009: 499). The history of this process reveals how economic, monopolistic, and political factors delayed the emergence of Pe...

The abundance of fantastical plant life is one of the defining characteristics of the visual identity and world-building in the Hong Kong animated feature Another World 世外(Ng, 2025), which is richly rendered through hand-drawn 2D animation. This text explores how Another World reconfigures the conventional boundary between background and foreground by centri...