Ellie Land

Assistant Professor

Department: Arts

Ellie Land is an award-winning animation Director, Educator, and Researcher making short, feature-length and interactive films, working within the genre and research area of animated documentaries.

Her films have been showcased around the world, at animation festivals such as Ottowa, Hiroshima, and Fantoche and have been curated for exhibitions at the V&A, ICA, Artscience, Dejon Korea and distributed via UK cinema release and with channels such as Sky Documentaries and VOD.

Recently, her work on the feature film Irene’s Ghost was nominated for a BIFA Award in 2018 and was cited as one of the best films of 2019 by the Guardian. Her recent short-animated documentary Bathroom Privileges (with Rupert Williams) won the AHRC Research in Film (Animation) Award 2020.

Her films and research have been funded by Wellcome, BFI, Creative England, National Institute for Health Research, UKRI, Comic Relief and The National Lottery.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Ellie’s research is interested in representational strategies of animated documentary particularly around ideas of identity and female narratives of lived experience. Her work is concerned with memory, trauma, mental health, and subjective experience. Her practice is informed by 2D animation techniques and digital drawing. She is also interested in investigating power structures in knowledge production and filmmaking practices.

Ellie’s research approach is often collaborative and she works in multidisciplinary teams with researchers in health and medicine with an emphasis on Women’s Health. For example past projects have used narrative testimony to provide interventions to the challenges represented in providing equitable provision for women’s health in the UK and using animated GIFs to disseminate health communication messages for Coronavirus.

Ellie is the co- convenor of the Animation Practice as Research special interest group for the Society for Animation Studies and on the editorial board for Animation Practice, Process and Production (Intellect Press) Ellie is the co - creator of Animateddocumentary.com

Key Publications

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A pre- and post-intervention study testing the effect of exposure to languageless animated images communicating COVID-19 preventive behaviours on behavioural intentions and beliefs of Guatemalan adults, O'Brien, N., Vijaykumar, S., Craig, M., Land, E., Aguilar Jocol, S., Bedoya Mendoza, X., dela Cruz Estrada, R., Najera Gonzalez, E., Nicolau Ozaeta, L. 22 Jul 2022, In: Journal of Global Health
Bathroom Privileges, Land, E. Mar 2019
Irene's Ghost, Cunningham, I., Mark-Lawson, R., Land, E., Arthur, D., Cunningham, L., Tye, C. 1 Oct 2018
Breech, Land, E., Say, R. 2015
Decision support for breech presentation: what do women want?: British Maternal & Fetal Medicine Society (BMFMS) 17th Annual Conference 2015, Say, R., Nesbitt, D., Land, E., Exley, C., Thomson, R., Robson, S. Apr 2015, British Maternal & Fetal Medicine Society (BMFMS) 17th Annual Conference 2015
Sleepless, Land, E. 2015
Animating the Other Side: Animated Documentary as a Communication Tool for Exploring Displacement and Reunification in Germany, Land, E. 14 Dec 2014, Displaced Heritage: Responses to Disaster, Trauma, and Loss, Boydell & Brewer
The Process of Using Participatory Research Methods with Film-Making to Disseminate Research: Challenges and Potential, Land, E., Patrick, R. 2014
Centrefold, Land, E. 31 Mar 2012
Centrefold screening, Land, E. 5 Nov 2012, Women’s. Bodies. Politics Conference

Professional Activity

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Other: London International Animation Film Festival 2020
Invited talk: BBC Radio 3 Arts and Ideas, New Thinking; Films and Research 2020
Other: Aesthetica Film Festival 2020
Other: Interfilm Berlin 2020
Other: St Johns International Women’s Film Festival 2020
Other: Queer Film Festival Bremen 2020
Other: BFI FLARE LGBTQI Film Festival London 2020
Invited talk: Accelerate Sessions/Animation Salon: animated documentary 2020
Invited talk: 30 Years Peaceful Revolution - Fall of the Wall 2019
Participating in a conference, workshop, ...: Open City Docs Festival A 2019

Qualifications

Teaching & Learning PGCert July 01 2010
Animation MA September 01 2005

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