Watch Me Move. The Animation Show

In 1911, Amer­i­can car­toon­ist and ani­ma­tor Win­sor McCay pref­aced his short film Lit­tle Nemo with the injunc­tion ​“Watch Me Move.” A cen­tu­ry lat­er, we used these words to unite the cre­ative achieve­ments of indus­try pio­neers in visu­al effects, inde­pen­dent film, and con­tem­po­rary art, and to explore ani­ma­tion’s place in glob­al culture.

“Watch Me Move” pre­sent­ed ani­ma­tion as an influ­en­tial force in the devel­op­ment of glob­al visu­al cul­ture, exam­ined the rela­tion­ship between ani­ma­tion and film, and offered a con­tem­po­rary insight into the genre as a cul­tur­al phe­nom­e­non. The exhi­bi­tion fea­tured over 170 works, from icon­ic clips to less­er-known mas­ter­pieces, and explored the film­mak­ing process through pup­pets, set designs, sto­ry­board draw­ings, wire­frame visu­al­iza­tions, cel and back­ground images.