Jonathan Hodgson is an internationally renowned animation director based in London, he has twice won BAFTAs for Best Short British Animation in 2000 and 2019. He studied animation at Liverpool Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art. After spending 25 years directing commercials he moved to academia, setting up and leading the Animation degree at Middlesex University where he combines teaching with making personal films. He is the animation director of Wonderland: The Trouble with Love and Sex, the first full length animated documentary on British TV.
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Goodman began his career as an illustrator and graphic designer, working for two of Israel’s major newspapers, Maariv and Haaretz. In 1998, he studied at the department of visual communication in Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, majoring in animation. After his graduation in 2002, Yoni worked as a freelance animator and illustrator, working on commercials, short films and clips, as well as teaching animation in the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.
In 2004, Yoni worked as an animation director for Ari Folman‘s documentary series The material that love is made of. Folman and Goodman’s collaboration continued with Yoni as an animation director in Ari Folman’s acclaimed film Waltz with Bashir. Goodman also developed the Adobe Flash Cutout technique for the film.
In 2009, he made several short films for human rights organizations, notably the short film Closed Zone, protesting against the Gaza blockade.[1][2] Yoni also worked as an animation director in the short film The Gift,[3] directed by Ari Mark.
In 2011 Yoni began his work as Animation Director for Ari Folman’s feature The Congress (2013), based on a novel by Stanislaw Lem.
He also collaborated on a Global Health Media project about Healthcare literacy, notably on[4]
Yoni Goodman currently lives in Israel with his wife and 3 children.
Filmography[edit]
- Waltz with Bashir (2008, animation director)
- Closed Zone (2009, director)
- The Gift (2010, animator)(short film)
- “The Story of Cholera” (2011, director)(short film)
- The Congress (2013)
- “The Story of Ebola”
- “The Story of Coronavirus”
“I am interested in how the materiality of an image can support its
Catherine Anyango Grünewald, Live, Moments Ago (The Death of Mike Brown) (n.d)
meaning, the tearing or disintegration of paper and marks alluding to
the criminal and emotional disruption of public space. The police
violence in America is happening almost too fast to comprehend and
almost certainly too fast to document. In a series that started with the
death of Trayvon Martin in 2012, I have been documenting the last
image in the victims of police shootings lives. In this film the drawn
footage is worked and reworked until the figures merge with the
landscape and the paper is destroyed. There is a sense of burning,
referencing lynching and also foreshadowing the subsequent riots.”
catherine-anyango.com.
https://www.royaldrawingschool.org/lectures-events/catherine-anyango-grunewald/