Le cinéma d’animation et ses thanatomorphoses (fragments sur le monstre, la charogne, le montage et l’animation)

The role and limits of editing in animation film are reconsidered here. It is no longer a matter of perceiving this practice as “simply” assembling shots, associating random elements, linking diverse pieces and creating a monstrous body, but rather, it is presently regarded as a continual process of managing transitions, shifting between images, transforming inanimate objects, transmuting immobile elements and transfiguring inert beings. Thus, the animation film’s purpose is less phantasmal, to be a giver of life, as it is phantasmagoric, to be an animator of death.