Shadow Play: The Animated Films of Lotte Reiniger https://www.criterionchannel.com/shadow-play-the-animated-films-of-lotte-reiniger The foremost pioneer of silhouette animation, German filmmaker Lotte Reiniger brought enchanting storybook worlds to life through her intricate cutouts and groundbreaking use of a proto-multiplane camera that she developed a decade before the technique was made famous by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. Her gorgeous “One Thousand and One Nights”–inspired adventure THE ADV