Animated short films have long been a free and privileged creative space for many female directors, who have increasingly used this medium since the 1970s. Independent animation, for both economic and formal reasons, has fostered a culture in which women’s voices can be heard.

The talk will explore how animated short films have proved to be, more than a refuge, a particularly suitable field for the deployment of the female gaze, inviting a new aesthetic of desire, an intimate relationship with the female body, and a community of women’s experiences.

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Cécile Noesser

Expert in animated cinema, doctor in sociology of Arts & Culture, Cécile Noesser simultaneously carries out research, teaching, programming and coordination in animated cinema.

Author of “The Resistible Rise of Animated Cinema” (L’Harmattan, 2016), co-director of the collection “animated cinema” at L’Harmattan editions, she teaches history of animation and aesthetics at the high school of art and design in Amiens (ESAD). Co-founder of the Miyu gallery, she created in 2021 the Phénakis association – mobile museum of animation.