Behind the Screen
About This Event
Live event at Moving Image Exhibitions
About Yuri Norstein: Three Tail Tales
At Moving Image Exhibitions in New York City, *Yuri Norstein: Three Tail Tales* places the Russian animator’s hand-built worlds in dialogue with other screen artists, including Jim Henson, Lu Yang, and Todd Haynes. The presentation traces Norstein’s layered, cut-paper approach and the folk currents that run through his short-form storytelling. In a city where animation is often treated as industry, the show reads as an argument for animation as fine art and personal cinema. It offers context rather than spectacle, and that restraint is the point.
About the Artists
Jim Henson
Jim Henson was an American puppeteer, performer, animator, and director whose work helped define modern character-based screen storytelling, from the Muppets to long-form projects like *Fraggle Rock* and feature films including *The Dark Crystal* and *Labyrinth*.
Yuri Norstein
Yuri Norstein is an individual artist whose work is often encountered in moving-image exhibition contexts, where animation, craft, and image-making are treated as material practice. In New York City, his work has appeared in programs at Moving Image Exhibitions, including the live event *Overexposed: Art, Technology, and the Body*.
Lu Yang
Lu Yang is an artist whose work sits at the intersection of exhibition practice and moving-image presentation, often treating the body as a site shaped by technology. In New York City, her projects have appeared in the context of Moving Image Exhibitions, where screen-based work is framed alongside live conversation and performance.
Todd Haynes
Todd Haynes is an artist whose work moves between cinema and exhibition contexts, with a background grounded in the study of images and how they shape identity. In New York City, his projects have appeared in Moving Image Exhibitions, where film language is treated as material for the gallery as much as for the screen.