I've just been to see the exhibition 'Watch Me Move: The Animation Show' at the Barbican in London. What a feast! There are some lovely and intriguing works by animators from across the world, people like Caroline Leaf, the Brothers Quay, Zhou Xiaohu and Lotte Reiniger. But it was Yuri Norstein's Tale of Tales that transported me to a different realm as I watched it. Released in 1979 by the USSR's Soyuzmultfilm, a Russian animation studio based in Moscow, it's a beautiful film and succeeds completely in the way Norstein's style and the narrative come together to evoke the quality of memory. And I like that about it very much, that I'm remembering a film about memory, in the same fragmentary way I recall memories from my own life.
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