The Wachowski sisters’ cubist pop-art tribute to the visual style of anime: a propulsive sugar rush of a movie whose mind-boggling visual innovations were long misunderstood because of its open-hearted populism. Will Speed Racer (that is his name) prevail against corporate corruption, ninjas, and the laws of physics themselves?

This film is screening in the current Adelaide Cinémathèque program and guest curated by Idris Kellerman.

Animation Transformed – Guest Programmed by Idris Kellerman from moviejuice

Where last year’s Animation in Transformation programme explored visual metamorphosis, this programme showcases how filmmakers have negotiated flatness in animation aesthetics as cinema is transformed by technological change, and how animation aesthetics have been transferred into live-action cinema. The four films in this programme all use flattened images and compositing to create fantastical worlds which foreground their artifice in different ways, with surprising aesthetic connections emerging across them.