Thursday's Google Doodle is a short, wordless animated tribute to the one of the first female trailblazers in the film industry, Lotte Reiniger. Born 117 years ago June 2, Reiniger's animations were ...

This short documentary looks at the animated art of Lotte Reiniger. We are taken through a demonstration by Lotte herself on the way she cut out, constructed and filmed a silhouette character. She ...

The World in Light and Shadow. Silhouette cut-outs, Shadow Theater and Silhouette Film is a wonderfully designed, almost labyrinth-like tour through the lives and work of Lotte Reiniger (1899-1981) ...

As impressive and immersive as films like the upcoming Finding Dory may be, their animators owe an enormous debt to the field’s pioneers. These resourceful men and women used rudimentary technology to ...

German film director Charlotte 'Lotte' Reiniger, the pioneer of silhouette animation, has been honoured with a Google doodle on what would have been her 117th birthday. Born in Berlin-Charlottenburg ...

Reiniger entdeckte ihre Liebe zum Film und zur Animation bereits im Teenageralter. Sie erstellte Filme, die aus Tausenden von Fotos von ausgeschnittenen Silhouetten bestanden. Die Charaktere aus ...

Clare Kitson, the former National Film Theater programmer and TV executive who leveraged her position at Channel 4 to consolidate its position as a world champion of animation – as art, ...

Curator Amanda Slack-Smith’s idea for the exhibition Fairy Tales had been percolating away for a decade, ever since she programmed a series of films on the topic at the Gallery of Modern Art ...

Discovering who you are is a journey that lasts a lifetime.

Cineteca Madrid, part of the Area of Culture, Tourism, and Sports, is ringing in the holiday season with a rich lineup of programming that includes German cinematic classics, beloved family films, and ...

“Animated cinema is the demiurgic art par excellence: matter comes to life and is transformed in the hands and imaginations of the creators. They, more than anybody, know about the secret life of ...