THE ANIMATOR AS AN ARTIST, THE ARTIST AS AN ANIMATOR. A RECAP

Alan Cholodenko (New Jersey, 1940) is not only one of the most important theorists in animation, but he has made animation a way of understanding life. There is no art without 'anima', without the desire to breathe life; nor is there animation that is not, basically, 'lifedeath', a (re)animated life. With a post-structuralist thought, following his mentors Jean Baudrillard and Jacques Derrida, Alan Cholodenko has built a solid philosophy of animation around the idea of 'animatic apparatus', an essential term to understand the revolution that involves the imaging technologies that support current science, culture and society. 'The animator as an artist, the artist as an animator", an essay as personal as it is penetrating, exposes the fundamental axis of his thinking about drawing as a seductive and deconstructive gesture.