Alan Cholodenko

Alan Robert Cholodenko is an American-Australian scholar, film and animation theorist.

His work in the field was reviewed by animation and film scholars Richard Leskosky[3] and Vivian Sobchack.

[8] Alan Cholodenko organized The Illusion of Life, the world's first international conference on animation, in Sydney in 1988.

He organized the second international conference on animation, The Life of Illusion, in Sydney in 1995, on post-World War II animation in Japan and the United States, held at the Japan Cultural Centre and the Museum of Contemporary Art.

In 2024, he was admitted as Honorary Fellow of The University of Sydney[11] in a ceremony honoring his life achievements.