"New Independent Animation from Japan"

You won't find any Pixar preciousness, Robin Williams voiceovers, or Disney-driven franchising opportunities here. Most of the cutting-edge entries featured are screening stateside for the first time, and the inventiveness on display is often a revelation. In Hiroshi Sato's "Scrap Land" (below) a mechanical menagerie emerges from a funky junk heap. Among the rubble: a porcupine that shoots rusty nails ... (Full article: 141 words)

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