Animating News
During the year 2015 and part of 2016 I worked as an in-house animator and illustrator for a news portal called “Infojus Noticias”. This website was dedicated to the subject of legal news, working from within the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights of Argentina. The video team was responsable for not only filming and editing a daily news reel, but producing fresh and innovative approaches to the way we could communicate ephemerides or very rare and special news.
Below you can see a selection of the most interesting videos I made in that time.
MALVINAS PRISONERS AT THE CROSSING OF THE ANDES
To cross the Andes, San Martín summoned the prisoners of the Malvinas Islands. One month after the declaration of independence, while San Martin was assembling his army to cross the Andes and liberate Chile and Peru, he wrote a letter to the governor of San Juan. There, by order of the minister of war, he asked to release prisoners from the Patagones and Malvinas prisons to join his troops.
Illustration, Animation: Emmanuel Cerino
Script and Investigation: Ana Soffietto
BERNARDO ALBERTE, THE FIRST VICTIM OF THE DICTATORSHIP
At 2.15 on March 24, 1976, fourteen military vehicles of the Federal Police and the Army stormed the Avenida del Libertador building at 1100. They pushed the entrance door and climbed the six floors up the stairs. When they reached the apartment, they broke the service door.- Get up, we come to kill you! – shouted a military man of the gang …
Illustration, Animation: Emmanuel Cerino
Script and Investigation: Bernabé Moyano
THE BOOK OF HUGS
Galeano was a great diffuser of dependency theory and it was in that role that he jumped to international fame. “The open veins of Latin America” remains a bestseller that shows no sign of decline in popularity. The text had the ability to change the life or the way of seeing the world to a significant number of human beings from different generations and regions.
Illustration, Animation - Emmanuel Cerino
Time of production: 1 day
NIPPUR FROM MONSERRAT
At the beginning of the year 2015, the story of Marie Vázquez, the architect who told on Twitter her fight against cancer, went viral. Marié died leaving a 3-year-old son named Nippur, in homage to Robin Wood’s famous graphic novel.But the choice of name, more of Sebastián (her husband) than of her, is a story that also deserves to be told.Sebastian fought against the bureaucracy and the old Civil Code to register his son with the name he chose. This is the story of how a name and the struggle of a father ended up constituting the posthumous notebook that Marie wrote to her son, a notebook that became one of the most emotional publishing releases of recent years.A story that, without the new Civil Code, which facilitates the registration of children with original names, could not be told.…
Illustration, Animation: Emmanuel Cerino
Script and Investigation: Bernabé Moyano