Next month, as part of MOMA‘s “To Save And Project” festival devoted to newly restored films, American artist Kara Walker will introduce a new print of Lotte Reiniger‘s magnificent 1926 film, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, the oldest surviving animated feature film on record.

If you’ve never seen Walker’s work up close—and you should—it bears a striking resemblance to that of the German animator.  Born in Berlin in 1899, Reiniger developed an early fascination with silhouette puppetry and the films of

 
Here’s a delightfully trippy 3-D short based on the work of French illustrator, Jean-Philippe Masson (Muzo).  It’s certainly got a candy-colored shell, but the contents inside smack of something darker!