✨ Art Without Borders – From the Alps to Your Own Sketchbook
“Life is too short to make remakes.” — Michel Gondry, Annecy Festival 2025
This week, the beating heart of global animation pulses from a small town nestled in the French Alps. Annecy — festival town, mountain-shadowed — has once again drawn artists, dreamers, and craft-lovers into its orbit for the world’s most influential celebration of animation.
While the screens flicker with new and classic visions, what resonates most is the commitment to originality. To voices that surprise. To beauty crafted by hand, not by formula.
Let’s wander through some highlights — and then explore how these global moments might just spark your next local creation.
🌍 What’s New in the World of Art?
🎟️ Annecy Festival 2025:
From paper planes soaring before keynotes to grassroots animators premiering works beside industry giants, this festival shows no sign of slowing.
Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine) reminded us that showing the seams in your work — scissors, glue, scribbles — can be the very magic. His resistance to digital “updates” touched a nerve: muscle memory, he says, can’t refresh like software. Joanna Quinn, awarded the Cristal prize, dedicated it to animation teachers in Gaza — a reminder that inspiration can flicker in the most fragile places.
🎞️ Revival of Hungarian Shorts:
Yes, the communist-era gems of the 60s and 70s are back. Works like Sisyphus still stun with raw physicality. They broke rules then — and now
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