During a career that has spanned six decades and a wide range of endeavors—including major studio animation, the production of Air Force training films, a number of excellent art documentaries, and his own celebrated paintings and graphic art—Jules Engel has become one of our greatest living film artists. Among his earliest accomplishments are the direction of the Russian and Chinese dance sequences from Disney’s Fantasia and the supervision of color continuity for Bambi. One of the key figures in abstract animation, he has created a singular body of work that playfully explores the limits of visual representation and the rhythmic potentials of color. Engel’s contributions include not only his own remarkable films (Accident, Train Landscape, Rumble), now classics, but training provided to at least two generations of American animators through the production program he founded at the California Institute of the Arts in the late 1960s.