Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - The Winters Tale
Exquisitely sculpted and lifelike puppets perform this touching tale of rage, remorse and forgiveness. The King's fit of temper results in the death of his wife Hermione and his young son, and his baby daughter Perdita is banished. Sixteen years lat...
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - Hamlet
All animation techniques are painstaking, but that of painting on glass is especially so. This unusual medium succeeds impressively in capturing the ghostly presence of Hamlet's father and the agonized indecision of Hamlet himself, in this classic d...
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - King Richard lll
The richly rewarding technique of painting on glass has been uniquely explored for this blackest of black comedies. No compassion is shown by the hunchback King Richard, whose unquenchable thirst for power destroys his wife, his brother, his best fr...
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - Macbeth
The all-enveloping evil of Shakespeare's bloodiest work is captured with arresting and graphic intensity by powerful cel animation. Awash with murder, madness and dark forces, it is easy to understand the superstition that causes those in the theatr...
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - A Midsummer Night's Dream
An animated adaptation of the play A midsummer night's dream, by William Shakespeare. Therein, a group of lovers have a series of comical adventures after several of them are enchanted by a magical elixir. The beauty of cel animation is that it can ...
In context: To kill a mockingbird
In Monroeville, Alabama, Harper Lee's model for Maycomb, To Kill a Mockingbird is celebrated as a tribute to Southern life. This hard-edged program juxtaposes white and black experiences in the racially segregated South of the 1930s-1960s to deepen ...
Sunflowers
To study the Sunflowers sequence is to chart van Gogh's meteoric rise from apprentice to master - and subsequent ruin. In telling the incredible story of how these 11 paintings came to be, this program follows the doomed trajectory of the relationsh...
The kiss
Loved by the public and spurned by its creator, Rodin's The Kiss remains controversial to this day. While telling the remarkably intricate story of how the sculpture came to be, this program illustrates the impact of Michelangelo's and Ghiberti's wo...
The night watch
When Rembrandt painted Frans Banning Cocq's militia company, he imbued it with all the drama and gravity of a major moment in history. This program deftly deconstructs The Night Watch to understand the many conventions it broke through its suggestio...
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - Romeo and Juliet
The world's best-known love story. Rich cel animation captures the tension and romance felt by two young citizens of Verona, oppressed by family rivalries, yet bound by an all-consuming love. The contrasts between raging passions and tender moments ...