Swiss Exhibition Honours Japanese Director Of The 'Heidi' Anime Series

2026-04-22 02:08:13

(MENAFN- Swissinfo) The anime series 'Heidi' is probably the best-known work of Isao Takahata. The mudac design museum in Lausanne is dedicating an exhibition to the Japanese director and co-founder of Studio Ghibli. This content was published on April 22, 2026 - 16:21 3 minutes Keystone-SDA

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The exhibition“Isao Takahata. Pioneer of contemporary animated film, from the post-war period to Studio Ghibli” traces the career of the filmmaker, who died in 2018. This is told using sketchbooks and storyboards, original drawings, celluloid films, film clips and audiovisual documents.

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Isao Takahata's classics from the 1970s include 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother (1976) and Anne of Green Gables (1979). According to the mudac museum's press release, these are characterised by unusual solutions to depict everyday life as accurately as possible despite weekly episodes –“from clothing, eating culture and forms of living to relationships with nature”. This resulted in“deeply human, dramatically finely crafted narratives”, which Takahata and his team realised.
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These works include the series Heidi (1974) in particular. A previously unpublished section of the exhibition is dedicated to the relationship between Takahata and Europe and the challenge of telling Western stories in Japanese animated film. The exhibition explores the director and producer's desire to authentically portray Western narratives.
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