"Open Door to Fantasyland" Sally Cruikshank's Animations

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Driven by the desire and curiosity to see her drawings move, Sally Cruikshank studied animation at the Art Institute of San Francisco in the early 1970s and soon became one of the most outstanding and original figures in experimental animation. Influenced by the classic cartoons of the 1930s and underground comics, her films are characterised by an overflowing, hallucinatory imagination, a psychedelic visual style with a retro feel, eccentric anthropomorphic characters and a surreal, frenetic and anarchic narrative peppered with her own particular sense of humour.

Sally Cruikshank's films never get old because they exist in their own, absolutely free universe in which anything can happen. In the words of the author herself, "Animation is this sort of open door to fantasyland, you're only limited by what you can draw."

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