"Independent art animation is the vision of individual filmmakers who create art for adults that is enchanting, exciting, whimsical, funny, contemplative, and/or serious. Yet most audiences never see these delightful films. Although museums such as MoMA screen them, they are not shown regularly because museums are designed to display still paintings and sculpture, not film. Meanwhile, commercial movie theaters don’t show art shorts. So art animation for adults gets lost between venues, rarely shown to the public outside of international animation festivals.

This monthly series looks at the limitless possibilities of art animation – and also at the incredibly labor-intensive business of producing the hundreds of thousands of drawings that make an animated film."