Timothy Reckart
Directing
Biography
Timothy Reckart is an American animator and director based in New York City, specializing in puppet stop motion. He is best known for his 2012 film Head Over Heels, nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2013. Reckart grew up in Tucson, Arizona, where he attended University High School. He studied history and literature at Harvard University where he graduated in 2009. He later attended the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, UK, where he graduated in 2012 from the Directing Animation course. Reckart is currently based in New York City where he also does work in multiplane collage animation, digital2D animation, and pixilation.
Known For
A small but brave donkey and his animal friends become the unsung heroes of the greatest story ever told: the first Christmas.
The Star
An inspirational speaker becomes reinvigorated after meeting a lively woman who shakes up his mundane existence.
Anomalisa
After many years of marriage, Walter and Madge have grown apart: He lives on the floor and she lives on the ceiling. When Walter tries to reignite their old romance, their equilibrium comes crashing down, and the couple that can’t agree which way is up must find a way to put their marriage back together.
Head Over Heels
Doctor Dolittle is a world-famous zoologist who must clear his name after a live-streamed expedition accidentally delivers a legendary creature into the hands of poachers. With the world turning against him, Dolittle needs to reunite with three estranged zoo friends for a daring rescue mission that could save the entire animal kingdom.
Doctor Dolittle: King of the Wild
A stop-motion mockumentary about an actor with a hunchback and his struggle against typecasting.
Token Hunchback
A story of unrequited love between an old man who wants a friend and a squirrel who wants a sandwich.