ABSTRACT
Documentary has traditionally adopted several strategies in situations in which it is not possible to capture live-action footage of the events concerned. Animation has become a popular choice to overcome the limitations of live-action filming. Brian Winston has suggested that a certain idea of documentary has come to dominate due to developments in nonfiction filmmaking in the 1960s. The direct cinema filmmakers in the United States believed documentaries could best convey the truth of a situation by observing it without any intervention. The three different functions of animation in animated documentary tend to imply different animation aesthetics, styles, and techniques. The mimetic substitution function usually works by virtue of the animation being photorealistic, or resembling, often as closely as possible, the look of live-action footage. Animation is being explored also for its own expressive potential within a nonfiction context. The character animation was drawn using the original video footage of the interviews as reference. The animation also functions, as evocation.
