ANIMATAZINE is an editorial endeavour, a fanzine offered in both print and online versions, showcasing content translated into Italian, French, and English. This publication is dedicated to the realm of animated art forms engaging in dialogue with various artistic and scientific domains, resonating with contemporary themes, particularly those pertaining to the environment.

ANIMATAZINE aspires to make the appreciation of animated art more inclusive and accessible, with the aim of reaching a diverse audience in terms of nationality, culture, age, and interests, without limiting itself to the exclusive professional and specialized audience of puppet theatre.

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ANIMATAZINE wants to be a platform for exploration, investigation, relationship, in dialogue with its readers: various spaces are dedicated to them to interact with the contents and animate the debate with different points of view.
 

ANIMATAZINE is accessible online through a trilingual website. Also exists in a printed version. 

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The two versions, paper and digital, want to be two different possible accesses to the contents, in dialogue with each other: in the paper version you can find the heart of the interviews and columns and through QR codes you can directly access the online version to use the different in-depth multimedia content (video, audio, photos).

By accessing the digital version only, you will find some excerpts from the interviews that refer to the in-depth study of the paper, multimedia contents and “linkographies” imagined to direct readers to further in-depth studies available on the net.

ANIMATAZINE defines itself as a *magazine of enthusiasts for enthusiasts: the editorial staff is made up of professional puppeteers who have decided to undertake an editorial project for the first time (and therefore not experts in the publishing sector), in order to disseminate and make known the art of puppets in an unusual, accessible and as universal as possible.

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Moved by these reasons, the editorial staff chose to set up the editorial project around four macro-themes inspired by natural elements, corresponding to the four issues of the fanzine, currently scheduled with annual release:  One / WATER (March-June 2022), Two / EARTH

(2023),  Three / AIR (2024), Four / FIRE (2025).

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For each issue, the contents (texts, videos, podcasts) are organized through four chapters:

ANIMATED LEVEL: collects interviews with puppeteers chosen from among the emerging and the masters of the national and international scene who have encountered, or placed at the center of their artistic research, the natural element to which the issue is dedicated.

DRIFT LEVEL: offers interviews and insights with artists (musicians, sculptors, dancers, painters, photographers, filmmakers) and researchers (scholars of humanities or scientific subjects) of the national and international scene, who have carried out research in connection with the natural element to which it is dedicated number.

CONTINENT LEVEL: offers an insight into a continent other than ours, through interviews and testimonies of puppeteers and scholars (anthropologists, historians, sociologists) always in connection with the proposed natural element.

HEADINGS LEVEL: a real meeting place with readers through contents elaborated by the collaborators of the enlarged editorial staff.

In addition to the editorial part, the project also includes a series of meetings and workshops with the most diverse audiences and of all ages, in order to both raise awareness of the initiative and collect elements of reflection, expression and creation around the proposed theme. for each number. The materials developed during the workshops are published online.