Leeds Animation Workshop

In the reading there was a topic about the Leeds Animation workshop. They were a group of women that got together in order to create an animation studio. They made independent films with a different purpose then many other studios that made films for commercial purposes. Their films were made in order to create a discussion, rather then just to make money and entertain the audience. According to the article these women changed the political climate of the 80’s in Britain.

Gillian Lacey, later in the article talked about her experiences at Leeds Animation Workshop. She felt that she was being “dis-abled, restricted, bound to the formula.” She felt that her ideas were being held down by their convectional ways at the workshop, and she needed to use more radical methods to get her message across. 

Another interesting part of the article is about the four part series called Blind Justice, which was also made entirely by women. They showed us how the law, and how it is enforced, affected women’s lives. The article talks about a lot of different women that were involved on the project, and their individual roles. Gillian Lacey had a particularly important role on the films. She was in charge of discovering ways that the women could better work together. She made the project better by connecting with more experience animators and having them help out with the project.