Little did they know they unwittingly entered a spirit world. But when the family takes a wrong turn on the way to their new home, Chihiro's dampened mood turns to anxiety when her parents decide to wander into what appears to be an abandoned amusement park. Ten-year-old Chihiro and her parents are moving to a new town, and she's not very happy about it. And while many of us wonder why it took so long for 'Spirited Away' to finally make it to Blu-ray, at least we can rest easily now that it finally has. And when you lay down in the Skyview installation, you can almost feel the wind, you can sense the heat.It could be ranked as one of the best animated features of all time. 'Hayao Miyazaki's films are almost sensory in nature,' she says. Niebel says the installation offers visitors their own moment of quiet and solitude, to contemplate nature. 'These moments where everything slows down and nothing much happens, are very typical of Hayao Miyazaki's films.' 'It's just a peaceful moment where she is immersed in nature, but she makes a very important decision: to leave her parents that night after her 13th birthday and become a witch in training.,' says curator Niebel. Skyview, as the installation is called, was inspired by a scene in Kiki's Delivery Service, during which the protagonist Kiki is laying on the grass, looking up at the sky, watching the clouds. Visitors are invited to lie down and look up at a round screen projecting a video of clouds drifting past. In the middle of another room of the Miyazaki exhibition, there is a sloped platform, covered with green carpeting that resembles a grassy knoll. Hayao Miyazaki, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. On the museum walls, you can read a poem Miyazaki wrote for his film staff to better understand the sensibility of his characters. 'And they herald special moments in his character's journeys.' 'Spirits can appear and disappear,' she says. She says that, in a subtle way, Miyazaki's films show that trees allow people to connect with the spiritual world - a kind of natural magic that exists in all his films. 'We try to invite visitors to think about the significance of trees in their lives.' The curators also wanted to include the tree to create an immersive experience for museum visitors 'where you just bump into this massive standalone tree and you can't avoid it, you kind of have to interact with it,' Niebel says. Niebel says the the exhibition's designers wanted to include a tree in the exhibition to introduce the idea of the magical forest, 'where we can come for purification, to find balance in our lives again and to get energized.' Trees play an important role in many of Miyazaki's movies: Castle in the Sky, My Neighbor Totoro and Princess Mononoke, among others. They appear and disappear with light, making them appear as if they are floating. Painted on the museum walls are depictions of Miyazaki's kodama tree spirits from the film Princess Mononoke. Strings and fiberglass strands hang from the ceiling, lit from above in neon green, giving it a magic glow from within where the character Totoro is supposed to be hiding. Mother Tree, Hayao Miyazaki, Academy Museum of Motion PicturesДЄ giant tree stands between two of the Miyazaki galleries, with a fabricated wooden trunk that takes four people to hug. Inside glass cases are Miyazaki's two Oscars statuettes. There are storyboards and other material from his films such Princess Mononoke (1997), Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) and the Oscar-winning coming-of-age film Spirited Away (2001). The tunnel leads to the first gallery room, where scenes from his 11 animated features are projected on the walls.ДЄlso on display is a wooden desk from Miyazaki's animation studio, and many of his hand-drawn character sketches ( he started off as a manga artist). It's meant to evoke a magical 'tree tunnel' inhabited by mystical wood spirits, a portal featured in his animated film My Neighbor Totoro (1988). Visitors enter Miyazaki's enchanted world through an tunnel made of green fabric. The 11,000-square-foot exhibition includes images of Miyazaki's big-eyed, innocent-looking children and creatures, flying castles, tree houses and lush forests. Joshua White/JWPictures/В©Academy Museum Foundation Hayao Miyazaki, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

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