If you loved Natural History Suite, try Animated Self-Portraits

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Natural History Suite

1967 · dir. Jan Švankmajer

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Animated Self-Portraits

1989 · dir. Osamu Tezuka, Kihachiro Kawamoto, Bill Plympton, Jan Švankmajer, David Ehrlich, Pavel Koutský, Jiří Barta, Candy Kugel, Priit Pärn, Borivoj Dovniković 'Bordo', Hardi Volmer, Maureen Selwood, Dušan Vukotić, Mati Kütt, Joško Marušić, Nikola Majdak, Sally Cruikshank, Riho Unt, Renzo Kinoshita

What they share

Both films are directed by Jan Švankmajer, and they both carry the cozy mood tag, and they sit in Animation territory. If that's the register that drew you to Natural History Suite, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Animated Self-Portraits is

Sketched identities collide in this 1989 split-screen showdown where 27 animators turn the camera on themselves, drafting autobiographical sketches in wildly mismatched styles. One rapid-fire mosaic of ego and aesthetics that never lands on a single look. The rare short that feels like a preview reel for the next century of animation.

If you loved Natural History Suite, try Animated Self-Portraits

Natural History Suite

Animated Self-Portraits

What they share

What Animated Self-Portraits is

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