About Yuriy Norshteyn

Yuriy Norshteyn is the most highly esteemed independent animation artist working today. Through masterfully built vignettes - lyrically nostalgic and imbued with a subtle sense of longing and loss - Norshteyn builds a landscape of intense emotional resonance. The lyrical visual poetry in his work is synonymous with his craftsmanship. Norshteyn uses a technique in which two dimensional flat-art is shot on multiple glass planes – a painstaking frame by frame process employed less and less by modern animators as they turn toward digital image making. In opposition, every aspect of the imagery on screen in a Norshteyn film is handcrafted. His refusal to use computers to speed the work earned him the nickname ‘the golden snail’ for his slow, ardent perfectionism. According to the Washington Post, Norshteyn is considered by many to be not just the best animator of his era, but the best of all time.