Programmed July 2021

Art-House Animation

The endless possibilities of animation are on dazzling display in this round-the-world showcase of some of the medium’s most innovative, boundary-pushing, and mind-enhancing examples. Far from cuddly kid’s stuff, these optical wonders are frequently dark, transgressive, sexually charged, and psychologically complex, using the anything-goes potential of animation to evoke expressionistic inner worlds and transport viewers to realms of the fantastical and the bizarre. Czech stop-motion surrealism ( The Fabulous Baron Munchausen , Alice ), Hungarian psychedelia ( Son of the White Mare ), visionary Japanese anime ( Mind Game , Paprika ), American underground experimentation ( Consuming Spirits ), hallucinatory Chilean horror ( The Wolf House ), Palestinian political satire ( The Wanted 18 ), and many more fantasias leap off the screen in this epic animation celebration that will leave your imagination whirling and your retinas reeling.