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John Grierson would have loved to know Jennifer Barker (b. 1967), for the breadth of her interests in cinema mirrors his ideal of the perfect director: someone who\u2019s as at ease with documentary as with animation. For Barker this means: after dealing with all kinds of political narratives, fiction and documentary alike, in her 2012 book <\/span>The Aesthetics of Antifascist Film: Radical Projection<\/span><\/i> (also out in paperback!), she\u2019s now, for her next book, looking at early US animation\u2019s influence around the world \u2013 what did Finns, Austrians, Japanese, Portuguese make out of <\/span>Felix the Cat<\/span><\/i> and his many contemporaries, how did we appropriate those images and narratives, make something our own out of them? In her research and writing, Barker loves to go where the contradictions get heavy and heady.<\/span><\/p>\n

She worked on early Black US Cinema, wrote veritable reveries on subjects like Tilt-Shift Photography and the Modern Fl\u00e2neur or the Feminism of Herm\u00edna T\u00fdrlov\u00e1, contributes regularly on animation matters for Mubi, and will now once again unleash on Sodankyl\u00e4\u2019s audience a true bonanza of animated images of fluff and fury!<\/span><\/p>\n

Olaf M\u00f6ller<\/em><\/p>\n

Jennifer Barker’s Master Class Cosmic Zoom: from <\/b>the minute to the sublime<\/b> presents a selection of short films.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Grierson would have loved to know Jennifer Barker (b. 1967), for the breadth of her interests in cinema mirrors his ideal of the perfect director: someone who\u2019s as at ease with documentary as with animation. 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