WMMNA: Barbican’s ‘Watch Me Move’ Traces Animation’s History
Inside 'Watch Me Move' The Animation Show at the Barbican Art Gallery in London. Photo Credit: Lyndon Douglas.
I wasn’t planning to blog about this exhibition today but I’m just back from Watch Me Move: The Animation Show at Barbican and if i don’t share with you a couple of gems I saw there, I won’t be able to focus on anything else.
The exhibition traces the history of animation over the last 150 years in over 100 films by contemporary artists, animators, auteur filmmakers and exponents of experimental film alongside the production of commercial studios.
Wallace and Gromit, Mickey Mouse, Felix the Cat and The Simpsons are there. Astro Boy and Sailor Moon too. So are dozens of films by artists, film-makers and studios such as Studio Ghibli, Fernand Léger, Harun Faroki, Cao Fei, Eadward Muybridge, Lumière Brothers, Stan Brakhage, Len Lye, William Kentridge, Kara Walker, etc.
This post was originally published on We Make Money Not Art. Republished with kind permission.
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