Whether as a historian or a filmmaker, John Canemaker is one of the leading figures in American animation. Author of numerous works on the medium's history including Winsor McCay: His Life and Art and Walt Disney's Nine Old Men and the Art of Animation, Canemaker is an award-winning animator of profoundly original and personal films. As a historian he is credited with establishing that Otto Messmer is the true creator of the iconic Felix the Cat character, and his own animation has been included in The World According to Garp as well as in episodes of Pee Wee's Playhouse. Canemaker will share his insights on animation history while introducing a selection of his own work including Bottom's Dream, a meditation on A Midsummer Night's Dream, and his 2006 Oscar-winning short The Moon and the Son. Canemaker is currently the director of animation studies in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television in the Tisch School of the Arts. Canemaker will speak in the Wexner Center Film/Video Theatre.