Jan Lenica once offered the following self-description: "I move on the fringes of fine art, film, and literature; no dictionary has a name for this kind of occupation." Although resistant to categorization, the output of this varied career has included graphic art, posters, collages, drawings, and award-winning animated films. Born in 1928 in Poland, Lenica began making films in 1957, working initially in his native country and then in France, West Germany, and the United States. Lenica’s graphic style characteristically favors thick outlines and heavily stylized design, cutout figures, and collage, all set to simply choreographed movement. Surrealist in conception and tragicomic in tone, his films often represent states of mind and the urban experience. Over the years Lenica has emerged as one of the great innovators of modern animation. The program includes five of the artist’s major works spanning twenty-five years of his career, as well as Richard Rogers’s 1975 documentary portrait, Moving Pictures: The Art of Jan Lenica.