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Internationales Symposium Ecstatic Truth: The Age of the Absurd. In Kooperation mit „Under the Radar“ (Wien) und dem Team von Ecstatic Truth: Birgitta Hosea, Animation Research Centre, UCA Farnham; UK; Pedro Serrazina, Universidade Lusófona, Lisbon, Portugal; Tereza Stehlikova, CREAM, University of Westminster, UK. Ecstatic Truth is an annual symposium founded in 2016 that explores the interface between animation (in all its forms) and documentary (conceptualised very broadly as non-fiction), with a particular interest in the questions raised by experimental and practitioner perspectives. According to Werner Herzog, mere facts constitute an accountant’s reality, but it is the ecstatic truth (a poetic reality) that can capture more faithfully the nuances and depths of human experiences. Given that animation (or manipulated moving image in all of its expanded forms) has the freedom to represent, stylize or reimagine the world, it lends itself well to this aspirational form of documentary filmmaking.