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To learn more about 100 Masters of Short Animation, read the introduction.
Michaela Pavlátová
1961 –
Born Prague, Czechoslovakia
Key production country: Czech Republic
Highly Recommended: Reci, Reci, Reci (1991), Repete (1995), The Carnival of Animals (2006)
Aleksandr Petrov
1957 –
Born Prechistoye, Yaroslavl province, USSR
Key production country: USSR
Highly recommended: The Cow (1989), The Old Man and the Sea (1999), My Love (2006)
Bill Plympton
1946 –
Born Portland, Oregon, USA
Key production country: USA
Highly recommended: Your Face (1987), 25 Ways To Quit Smoking (1989), Guard Dog (2004)
Bretislav Pojar
1923 –
Born Susice, Czechoslovakia
Key production country: Czechoslovakia
Highly recommended: The Lion and the Song (1959), ‘E’ (1981), Nightangel (1986)
Barry Purves
Key production country: UK
Highly recommended: Next (1989), Screen Play (1992), Achilles (1995)
Stephen and Timothy Quay
Stephen Quay (1947 – ); Timothy Quay (1947 – )
Stephen and Timothy Quay born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Key production country: UK
TSPDT 250 Greatest Shorts: Street of Crocodiles (1986)
Highly recommended: Gilgamesh, or This Unnameable Little Broom (1985), Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (1988), In Absentia (2000)
Joanna Quinn
1962 –
Born Birmingham,
England, UK
Key production country: UK
Highly recommended: Girl’s Night Out (1987), Britannia (1993), Dreams and Desires (2006)
Lotte Reiniger
1899 – 1981
Born Berlin, Germany
Key production country: Germany
TSPDT 250 Greatest Shorts: Papageno (1935)
Highly recommended: Cinderella (1922), The Little Chimney Sweep (1954), Hansel and Gretel (1955)
Wolfgang Reitherman
1909 – 1985
Born Munich, Germany
Key production country: USA
Highly recommended: The Truth About Mother Goose (1957), Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966), Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968)
Walter Ruttmann
1887 – 1941
Born Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany
Key production country: Germany
TSPDT 250 Greatest Shorts: Melody of the World (1929)
Highly recommended: Opus II (1921), Opus III (1924), Opus IV (1925)
Zbigniew Rybczynski
1949 –
Born Lodz, Poland
Key production country: Poland
Highly recommended: Soup (1975), Tango (1981), The Fourth Dimension (1988)
Georges Schwizgebel
1944 –
Born Bern, Switzerland
Key production country: Switzerland
Highly recommended: 78 Tours (1985), La Course à l’abîme (1992), L’Homme sans ombre (2004)
Garik Seko
1935 – 1994
Born Tbilisi,
Georgian SSR, USSR
Key production country: Czechoslovakia
Highly recommended: Faust’s House (1977), Ex Libris (1982), My Kamarad Tika (1987)
Raoul Servais
1928 –
Born Oostende, Belgium
Key production country: Belgium
Highly recommended: Sirene (1968), Harpya (1979), Atraksion (2001)
Ben Sharpsteen
1895 – 1980
Born Sonoma County, California, USA
Key production country: USA
Highly recommended: Mickey’s Service Station (1935), Clock Cleaners (1937), Mickey’s Trailer (1938)
Harry Smith
1923 – 1991
Born Portland, Oregon, USA
Key production country: USA
Highly recommended: Number 5: Circular Tensions: Homage to Oskar Fischinger (1949), Number 7 (1951), Number 10 (1956)
Wladyslaw Starewicz (aka Ladislas Starevitch)
1882 – 1965
Born Wilno, Poland, Russian Empire
Key production country: France
TSPDT 250 Greatest Shorts: The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912), Fétiche (1934)
Highly recommended: The Insect’s Christmas (1913), The Frog Who Wanted to be King (1923), The Voice of the Nightingale (1923)
Jan Svankmajer
1934 –
Born Prague, Czechoslovakia
Key production country: Czechoslovakia
TSPDT 250 Greatest Shorts: Dimensions of Dialogue (1982), A Quiet Week in the House (1969)
Highly recommended: Darkness/Light/Darkness (1989), Down to the Cellar (1983), Jídlo/Food (1992)
The Last Trick (1964), Johann Sebastian Bach (1965), Historia Naturae (1967), The Garden (1968), Don Juan (1969), The Ossuary (1970), The Otrants Castle (1977), Manly Games (1988)
Frank Tashlin
1913 – 1972
Born Weehawken, New Jersey, USA
Key production country: USA
Highly recommended: Have You Got Any Castles? (1938), Porky Pig’s Feat (1943), Swooner Crooner (1944)
Wendy Tilby
1960 –
Born Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Key production country: Canada
Highly recommended: Tables of Contents (1986), Strings (1991), When the Day Breaks (1999)
Jirí Trnka
1912 – 1969
Born Pilsen, Austria-Hungary
Key production country: Czechoslovakia
Highly recommended: The Story of the Bass Cello (1949), The Cybernetic Grandma (1962), Ruka/The Hand (1965)
Will Vinton
1948 –
Born McMinnville, Oregon, USA
Key production country: USA
Highly recommended: Closed Mondays (1974), The Creation (1981), The Great Cognito (1982)
Dusan Vukotic
1927 – 1998
Born Bileca, Montenegro
Key production country: Yugoslavia
Highly Recommended: Piccolo (1959), Surogat/Ersatz (1961), Inga/The Game (1962)
Te Wei
1915 – 2010
Born Shanghai, China
Key production country: China
Highly recommended: Where Is Mama? (1960), The Cowboy’s Flute (1963), Feeling from Mountain and Water (1988)
John Weldon
1945 –
Born Belleville, Ontario, Canada
Key production country: Canada
Highly recommended: Special Delivery (1978), To Be (1990), The Lump (1991)
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