The Art of Animation: Storytelling in the Digital Age

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We welcome the coauthors of the recently published Making the Cut at Pixar: The Art of Editing Animation, Bill Kinder and Bobbie O’Steen, as our guests for this series that showcases an impressive lineup of feature-length animated films. Made since 1999, these films benefit from methodologies of storytelling developed during the digital era. Kinder and O’Steen offer insights into every stage of production on an animated film, from storyboards to virtual cameras and final animation.
All of these films display excellent storytelling-from Pixar’s audience favorites such as Toy Story 2, Ratatouille, Finding Nemo, and The Incredibles to Hayao Miyazaki’s masterful Spirited Away, which we present in both its original and English-language versions, and the heart-warming My Life as a Zucchini, directed by Claude Barras. In addition, we consider films that display exceptional use of sound, such as Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, or foreground camerawork, such as Ari Folman’s revealing recollection of the 1982 war in Lebanon, Waltz with Bashir. Other selected films demonstrate how filmmakers break with the notion of animation as a genre, such as Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud’s celebrated Persepolis, and the recent Scandinavian production Flee, which depicts the refugee experience through vivid animation in a moving memoir directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen.
-Susan Oxtoby, Director of Film and Senior Film Curator