Yoel Hill is an Hungarian-American animator turned showman from Annapolis, Maryland, USA. He is currently a PhD student at the Griffith Film school in Brisbane, whose research strives to reinvigorate the practice of oral tradition through animation. This culminated in Anishaman Presents Gilgamesh. His work seeks to take storytelling back to its roots and open a dialogue between storyteller and audience as in the days of oral tradition.

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The Anishaman is short for Animation Shaman. Within oral cultures, the shaman was viewed as the mediator between the human realm and the animistic one (Abram 1997). Meanwhile, the Anishaman is the mediator between the audience and the animated realm. Additionally, notice how within Anishaman, the word sham is highlighted, this is to embrace how animation is nothing more than a trick of the eye.

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Contact: yoel.hill@gmail.com

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Biblography

Abram, D. (1997). The spell of the sensuous : perception and language in a more-than-human world (First Vintage books edition). Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

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