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Animation
No medium is more liberated from physical reality. Independent animation spans from hand-drawn intimacy to experimental abstraction.
History & Context
From the NFB's Golden Age to the animation renaissance sparked by Persepolis and Waltz with Bashir, independent animation has consistently pushed the art form to places studio animation won't go.
Essential Films
- Persepolis
- Waltz with Bashir
- The Breadwinner
- Wolf Children
- I Lost My Body