Arthouse animation

Arthouse animation is a combination of art film and animated film.

Examples of arthouse animated films

20th century

• El Apóstol (1917; now considered a lost film)^[1]
• Fantasia (1940)^[2][3][4][5]
• Neighbours (1952)^[6]
• Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955)^[7]
• Invention for Destruction (1958)^[7]
• The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962)^[7]
• Game of Angels (1964)^[8]
• The Glass Harmonica (1968)^[9]
• Fritz the Cat (1972)^[10][11]
• Belladonna of Sadness (1973)^[12]
• Fantastic Planet (1973)^[13][14]
• Johnny Corncob (1973)^[7]
• Hedgehog in the Fog (1975)^[15]
• Allegro Non Troppo (1976)^[16]
• Watership Down (1978)^[7]
• Asparagus (1979)^[8]
• Bubble Bath (1979)^[17][18]
• Tale of Tales (1979)^[19]
• Son of the White Mare (1981)^{[20][21][22][14]}
• Dimensions of Dialogue (1982)^[8]
• The Plague Dogs (1982)^[7]
• Angel's Egg (1985)^[23][14]
• The Pied Piper (1986)^[14]
• The Brave Little Toaster (1987)^[24][25]
• Wicked City (1987)^[26]
• Akira (1988)^[27]
• Alice (1988)^[28][14]
• Only Yesterday (1991)^[29][30]
• The Thief and the Cobbler (1993)^[31]
• Faust (1994)^[7]
• Ghost in the Shell (1995)^[32]
• Perfect Blue (1997)^[33]
• Princess Mononoke (1997)^[34]
• Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998)^[35]
• The Prince of Egypt (1998)^[36]

21st century

• Millennium Actress (2001)^[28]
• Waking Life (2001)^[37]
• Spirited Away (2001)^[38][39]
• The Triplets of Belleville (2003)^[40][41]
• Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)^[42]
• Mind Game (2004)^[43][14]
• Paprika (2006)^[28][14]
• A Scanner Darkly (2006)^[44]
• Persepolis (2007)^[28][45]
• Waltz with Bashir (2008)^[28]
• Coraline (2009)^[46]
• Mary and Max (2009)^[28]
• The Secret of Kells (2009)^[47]
• A Town Called Panic (2009)^[7]
• Chico and Rita (2011)^[28]
• From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)^[48]
• The Rabbi's Cat (2011)^[7]
• The King of Pigs (2011)^[7]
• Consuming Spirits (2012)^[7][49]
• It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)^[50]
• Boy and the World (2013)^[51]
• Song of the Sea (2014)^[52][53]
• Anomalisa (2015)^[54]
• In This Corner of the World (2016)^[55]
• My Life as a Courgette (2016)^[52]
• The Red Turtle (2016)^[55][41]
• Seoul Station (2016)^[55]
• Tower (2016)^[56][7]
• The Breadwinner (2017)^[57][53]
• Have a Nice Day (2017)^[58]
• Loving Vincent (2017)^[52]
• Isle of Dogs (2018)^[59]
• The Wolf House (2018)^[7]
• I Lost My Body (2019)^[60]
• Bombay Rose (2019)^[61]
• Wolfwalkers (2020)^[62]
• Bestia (2021)^[63]
• Boxballet (2021)^[63]
• Cryptozoo (2021)^[64][65]
• Flee (2021)^[66][67]
• The Windshield Wiper (2021)^[63]
• Mad God (2022)^[68][14]
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2022)^[69][70]
• Unicorn Wars (2022)^[71]
• The Boy and the Heron (2023)^[72]
• Distortion (2023)^[73]
• Letter to a Pig (2023)^[74]
• Ninety-Five Senses (2023)^[74]
• Our Uniform (2023)^[74]
• Pachyderme (2023)^[74]
• Robot Dreams (2023)^[75][76]
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)^[77]
• Flow (2024)^[78]

Notable arthouse animators

• Walerian Borowczyk^[8]
• Suzan Pitt^[8]
• Jiri Barta^[14]
• Bruno Bozzetto^[16]
• Sylvain Chomet^[79][41]
• Gene Deitch^[80]
• Michaël Dudok de Wit^[55][41]
• Adam Elliot^[81]
• Ari Folman^[82]
• Don Hertzfeldt^[83][84][43]
• Marcell Jankovics^[85][86]
• Andrei Khrzhanovsky^[87]
• Satoshi Kon^[82]
• Yoji Kuri^[88][89][90]
• René Laloux^[13]
• Richard Linklater^[91][92]
• Hayao Miyazaki^[34]
• Tomm Moore^[62]
• Yuri Norstein^[19]
• Michel Ocelot^[93]
• Stephen and Timothy Quay^[94][95][96]
• Joanna Quinn^[63]
• Martin Rosen^[7]
• Dash Shaw^[64]
• Jan Švankmajer^[97]
• Osamu Tezuka^[98]
• Masaaki Yuasa^[43]
• Karel Zeman^[99]

See also

• Studio Ghibli
• Cartoon Saloon
• Independent animation
• Adult animation
• Cult film
• Experimental animation
• Rotoscoping
• Modernist film
  • Postmodernist film
• Minimalist film
  • Maximalist film
• Indiewood

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External links

• Art-House Animation - Criterion Channel Teaser trailer on Vimeo
• The 100 best animated movies: the best arty movies