Animagia, from the first images
to the latest technology
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This travelling exhibition is a cooperation of the museums of Annecy
and the international Centre of Animated Cinema. From the first images
to the latest technology, from the shadow theatre to virtual reality passing
through the world of animated cinema, the ANIMAGIA exhibition presents
a vast panorama of animated images. The Cinematograph is in fact the starting
out point for what we now call "cinema" or the "movies".
However, this invention would rather be remembered for pursuing the adventures
associating scientists, technicians, artists, magicians, tricksters...
This adventure also concerns the mastering of light. ANIMAGIA has chosen
this subject to travel through more than a century within the art of movement.
The exhibition presents a unique and particularly attractive piece: the
"automate" optical theatre: Emile Reynaud, master of his invention,
projects to the public a sequence of his film "Pauvre Pierrot",
the first real animated film produced in 1892. The ANIMAGIA exhibition
has its main source in organizing the Annecy Animation Festival (CICA).
The collection includes numerous optical toys and machines which contributed
to the invention of cinema, from the magic lantern to the optical theatre
(around 40 recently restored objects). It presents more than 2000 documents
(drawings, cells, puppets, books) used in the making of animated films.
The exhibition does not intend to achieve one single chronology accounting
for more than a century of animated images. It is rather built on several
common themes in order to gather in one place all the actors of this fantastic
adventure that is the animated image: the mastering of light, image and
magic, light and movement, capturing life in front of a public...
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