As I watched the documentary an old saying came to mind about Michelangelo standing in front of a block and chipping away everything that was not David. Often, literally, I would find tiny paper hands or hearts buried in my Target shag carpet. When I was in high school, I was very invested in my own cut paper artwork and wrote my common app college essay on this medium as a form of excavation. Like a ransom note collaged from magazine clippings, but it’s a life. However, to tell the story of Carmichael - who moved her family often to stay ahead of the law - the animation feels oddly fitting. As a child, I found this style of animation to be slightly sinister and the Nickelodeon show always made me uncomfortable. Carmichael was convicted of fraud after the financial demise of her automobile company (named after a fictional business in Atlas Shrugged) but was punished particularly harshly by the courts and media because of her gender.Ĭarmichael’s story is told through a mixture of family and press photographs heavily supplemented by a style of animation that can only be described as Angela Anaconda. This week I finished The Lady and the Dale on HBO, a documentary miniseries about the life of car entrepreneur and trans libertarian Geraldine Elizabeth “Liz” Carmichael. Daisy Alioto on the documentary’s stop-motion animation and Nickelodeon’s old show Angela Anaconda.
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