Flashback!

One of my local PBS TV stations in the Bay Area used to show short films back in the mid-late 80s, to fill the gap between Doctor Who and their evening block of British sitcoms, if I recall correctly. One of my favorites… no, make that my absolute favorite, was Sheila Graber’s short piece on the works of Leonardo da Vinci. She brought his sketches to life the old-fashioned, painstaking way–one drawing at a time. The beauty of this piece made a deep impression on me even to this day. I can’t listen to Vivaldi’s L’Iverno without one of da Vinci’s sketches popping into my mind, and I can’t look at a da Vinci drawing without a temporary flashback to this animation.

Link: Sheila Graber’s YouTube channel