Bio

Allyson Mitchell is a maximalist artist living in Toronto, Canada who creates visual art and installation with fun fur, found objects and abandoned crafts. She is a co-founder of the fat activist/performance group Pretty Porky and Pissed Off. Mitchell has produced many films and videos and collaborates frequently with fellow filmmaker Christina Zeidler as the film craft collective Freeshow Seymour. She is currently working on her dissertation about fat women, power and space and is teaching feminist activism at York University. 

Works

Afghanimation

  • 2008
  • Allyson Mitchell

“Afghanimation” uses stop-motion animation to weave a critique of military/media relations and the complacency of Canadians in smothering, camouflaging and covering up the real stories that come out of the history of occupation and war in Afghanistan. This film is also homage to Canadian filmmaker Joyce Wieland’s evocation of the domestic in order to critique nationalism and foreign policy – which is sadly still relevant and current.

Afghanimation