CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/30/2021

'Hayao Miyazaki' opens at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures!

Reproduced from the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures’ inaugural exhibition catalog (co-published with DelMonico Books) on the work of the beloved Japanese animated filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, this 1988 imageboard was produced for My Neighbor Totoro—perhaps the most indelible, and certainly the most personal and popular of Miyazaki’s films. "In an almost symphonic way, Miyazaki's films orchestrate drama and calm and create an ideal emotional setting for the sensations stemming from his imagination," Daniel Kothenschulte writes. "Similarly, his aesthetic finds a balance between traditional and modern visual languages, between the landscape painting of past centuries and surreal pictorial worlds, between the graphic stylization of traditional Japanese art and the radiant colorfulness of European impressionism.… What has, more than anything, contributed to Miyazaki's fame is [his] ability to create his own fully imagined universe through an unmistakable combination of storytelling and stunning visual language."