Moma’s Tomorrowland Looks Back in Wonder

Joosen, Conrad and future Lilo and Stitch director Chris Sanders collaborated at CalArts to produce the highly praised Toby in 1984. It’s a film about a badly-drawn boy and several other different types of iconic cartoon characters, “in an institute that represents CalArts,” says Joosen. “It was an outlandish school with a conservative group of traditional animators within it. Toby is character animation put in a school of the animation obscure. He tries to fit in but he thinks he’s too good for everybody. The film resonates with CalArts crowds because it so closely represents everything we go through at that school.”

The “Tomorrowland” schedule can be seen at http://fv.calarts.edu/main/moma/full.html