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)
• Fantasia (1940)
• Neighbours (1952)
• Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955)
• Invention for Destruction (1958)
• The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962)
• Game of Angels (1964)
• The Glass Harmonica (1968)
• Fritz the Cat (1972)
• Belladonna of Sadness (1973)
• Fantastic Planet (1973)
• Johnny Corncob (1973)
• Hedgehog in the Fog (1975)
• Allegro Non Troppo (1976)
• Watership Down (1978)
• Asparagus (1979)
• Bubble Bath (1979)
• Tale of Tales (1979)
• Son of the White Mare (1981)
• Dimensions of Dialogue (1982)
• The Plague Dogs (1982)
• Angel's Egg (1985)
• The Pied Piper (1986)
• The Brave Little Toaster (1987)
• Wicked City (1987)
• Akira (1988)
• Alice (1988)
• Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
• Only Yesterday (1991)
• The Thief and the Cobbler (1993)
• Faust (1994)
• Ghost in the Shell (1995)
• Perfect Blue (1997)
• The End of Evangelion (1997)
• Princess Mononoke (1997)
• Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998)
• The Prince of Egypt (1998)

21st century

• Millennium Actress (2001)
• Waking Life (2001)
• Spirited Away (2001)
• The Triplets of Belleville (2003)
• ' (2004)
• Mind Game (2004)
• Paprika (2006)
• A Scanner Darkly (2006)
• Persepolis (2007)
• Waltz with Bashir (2008)
• Coraline (2009)
• Mary and Max (2009)
• The Secret of Kells (2009)
• A Town Called Panic (2009)
• Chico and Rita (2011)
• From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)
• The Rabbi's Cat (2011)
• The King of Pigs (2011)
• Consuming Spirits (2012)
• It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)
• Boy and the World (2013)
• The Congress (2013)
• Song of the Sea (2014)
• Anomalisa (2015)
• In This Corner of the World (2016)
• My Life as a Courgette (2016)
• The Red Turtle (2016)
• Seoul Station (2016)
• Tower (2016)
• The Breadwinner (2017)
• Have a Nice Day (2017)
• Loving Vincent (2017)
• Isle of Dogs (2018)
• The Wolf House (2018)
• I Lost My Body (2019)
• Bombay Rose (2019)
• Wolfwalkers (2020)
• Bestia (2021)
• Boxballet (2021)
• Cryptozoo (2021)
• Flee (2021)
• The Windshield Wiper (2021)
• Mad God (2022)
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2022)
• Unicorn Wars (2022)
• The Boy and the Heron (2023)
• Emesis Blue (2023)
• Letter to a Pig (2023)
• Ninety-Five Senses (2023)
• Our Uniform (2023)
• Pachyderme (2023)
• Robot Dreams (2023)
• ' (2023)
• Flow (2024)
• Savages (2024)
• Arco (2025)
• Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (2025)
• Scarlet (2025)

Notable arthouse animators

• Walerian Borowczyk
• Suzan Pitt
• Claude Barras
• Jiri Barta
• Bruno Bozzetto
• Sylvain Chomet
• Gene Deitch
• Michaël Dudok de Wit
• Adam Elliot
• Ari Folman
• Don Hertzfeldt
• Mamoru Hosoda
• Marcell Jankovics
• Andrei Khrzhanovsky
• Satoshi Kon
• Yoji Kuri
• René Laloux
• Richard Linklater
• Hayao Miyazaki
• Tomm Moore
• Yuri Norstein
• Michel Ocelot
• Stephen and Timothy Quay
• Joanna Quinn
• Martin Rosen
• Dash Shaw
• Jan Å vankmajer
• Osamu Tezuka
• Masaaki Yuasa
• Karel Zeman
• Hideaki Anno

See also

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

References

External links

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