The deep nature of animated films has always been contested. Is it for kids? A wild slapstick ride for families? A challenging reality bender for adults?
Animation as a pure art form belongs firmly to shorts, with all the special freedom and intensity that belongs to the miniature space. But every now and again, a filmmaker manages to make an independent animated feature, and two of them have pride of place in this year’s Melbourne International Animation Festival, which is about to roll out at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.
