September is shaping up to be a major month for animation at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Not only will Richard Williams make a rare appearance for the New York debut of The Thief and the Cobbler: A Moment in Time, but the museum will host the Spanish animation retrospective “From Doodles to Pixels: Over a Hundred Years of Spanish Animation” from September 7 through 15.
Organized by Spain’s preeminent animation historian Carolina López Caballero, the eight-part screening series is essentially a crash-course in Spanish animation achievements, past and present, taking advantage of new scholarship and restoration initiatives organized by the Contemporary Culture Center of Barcelona and Acción Cultural Española.
The series, which premiered at the Annecy animation festival in 2015 and has been touring globally at museums and festival since, will be debuting in the United States for the first time, thanks to the efforts of MoMA film department curator Ron Magliozzi.