Slideshow: Documentaries Draw on Animation

The falling costs of animation and evolving rules of nonfiction filmmaking bring together a cinematic odd couple at Sundance. Jason Silverman reports from Park City, Utah.
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.Courtesy 2004 Sundance Film Festival

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Many of Henry Darger's works were painted in sequence, almost as if he were drawing storyboards for a movie. Jessica Yu's film includes both standard documentary footage and animated sequences that add movement and sound to Darger's paintings.

Courtesy 2004 Sundance Film Festival
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, is a documentary about the outsider artist Henry Darger.

Courtesy 2004 Sundance Film Festival