Artist in Person Presented in cooperation with the San Francisco chapter of ASIFA. The French animation artist Michel Ocelot brings fairytales up-to-date in marvelous cut-out animation techniques. Ocelot uses paper to make sculptural forms, often in bas-relief; the sharpness of the edges of the paper creates a style reminiscent of Lotte Reiniger's silhouettes. Without using period artifacts, he thus creates a period mood. But unlike their source, Reiniger, Ocelot's fairytales are witty and contemporary. From The Prince and the Princess: "And if I were a prince and you were a princess." "Again!" "Yes, but I have my own idea..." In The Insensitive Princess, the heroine is bored. "However, each night a new suitor tries his luck and manages prodigies." Ocelot describes The Legend of the Poor Hunchback: "High up, an unapproachable princess. Low down, a poor flaunted hunchback." Simplicity itself; until he describes his techniques, which he will do tonight.