Joseph Norman
Joseph Norman is UK-based independent animator; he is interested in adult-oriented animation which challenges audience perceptions and pushes the boundaries of storytelling. His research interests include the human/animal connection; the post-industrial representation of Nature in the Anthropocene; telling stories for adults through animation.
Since 2012, Joseph has lectured in media, art and animation. In addition, he has previously curated digital art and animation events at Brighton Digital festival and worked as producer at The Children’s Media Conference. He has also led a range a of animation workshops for art galleries and regularly presents his work at research conferences and festivals.
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Articles by Joseph Norman
- Bjork's Animation Music Videos, Ranked (Animator of Love and Fungus)
- Still Life with Woman, Tea and Letter by Tess Martin
- Via Dolorosa by Rachel Gutgarts: Film Review
- Imbued Life by Ivana Bošnjak and Thomas Johnson (Online Premiere)
- London International Animation Festival 2022: Our Top Picks
- Green Peas by Florentine Grelier & Francis Gavelle
- 'There's Always Conflict and Dichotomy': Interview with Theodore Ushev on 'Unseen Connections'
- Krasue by Ryo Hirano
- The Audience Will Always Be Different: Interview with Michael Frei (Swiss Animation Portraits 2022)
- Eating in the Dark by Inari Sirola
- Wish You Were Here by Shaun Clark
- London International Animation Festival 2021: Our Top Picks
- Library of Paradise, Garden of Pain by Christopher Childs
- Mad God by Phil Tippett | Film Review
- A Girl Who's Afraid of Touching People by Huang Liang-Hsin
- Trona Pinnacles by Mathilde Parquet
- Animafest Zagreb 2021: Our Top Picks
- Drifting by Sam Ripman & Freddie Griffiths
- Glas Animation 2021: Top Picks
- Tricky Women/Tricky Realities 2021: Festival Report
- Xylem by Michael Hughes
- Nod. Wink. Horse. by Ollie Magee
- 'Bursting out on the Edges': Interview with French Director Paul Cabon
- Festival Report: Cardiff Animation Festival October 2020
- Our Top Animation Short Picks from Encounters Film Festival
- Interview with Jack Wedge: Neo-Expressionist Animation on Adult Swim
- Interview with Duduf, Co-founder at Rainbox Lab and Rainbox Productions
- Lockdown Profile: Strangelove Festival
- Lockdown Interview with Astrid Goldsmith
- Imbued Life: Lockdown Interview with Ivana Bošnjak and Thomas Johnson
- Lockdown Interview with Lorenz Wunderle
- Lockdown Interview with Gerald Conn
- A Dark Vibrance: Interview with Stephen Irwin
- A Handmade Reality: Interview with Carla MacKinnon, director of O, Hunter Heart
- Landscape Is the Lens Through Which I See the World: Interview with Sean Vicary
- Herstory: Encounters Film Festival 2019
- The Gigantic Change by Extinction Rebellion: A Bedtime Story With Two Very Different Endings