Hayao Miyazaki erhält Preis für sein Lebenswerk
Die Erklärung des Festivaldirektors Marco Müller zum Preis an Miyazaki findet sich im Anhang:
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Hayao Miyazaki is the giant who pulled down the walls which had been erected to contain Japanese animated films and reduce them to Western categories. Too hastily, he was dubbed a ‘Japanese Disney’, reducing a creative energy and a vision that is completely out of the ordinary to parameters we are more accustomed to. Miyazaki’s energy combines romanticism and humanism with an epic take on story-telling, a touch of visionary fantasy that leaves one open-mouthed. The sense of wonder his films convey awakens the child who sleeps within each of us. We should not, however, forget the industrial surprises of Miyazaki: with the right ‘accomplices’, he has succeeded in exploding the conventional categories of animation, thanks to the systematic work of a factory which has also trained a considerable deal of fresh talent. In Hayao Miyazaki is embodied the filmic pop art of the new millennium, one of the components that are increasingly present in the research work of the Venice Film Festival.
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