Movements of the Body is a Canadian animated film series created by Wayne Traudt, consisting of the films 1st Movement: The Gesture (1994), 2nd Movement: The Drawing (1996) and 3rd Movement: The Coloring (1997).Liam Lacey, "Festival keeps it short and sweet: Brief running times and a wide variety of subjects are the main attractions". The Globe and Mail, June 5, 1997. Produced for the Calgary-based Quickdraw Animation Society,William Beard and Jerry White, North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980. University of Alberta Press, 2002. . p. 67. the three films each depict the motion of a body through various stages of the figure drawing process."City animator receives Genie nomination for movement study". Calgary Herald, December 8, 1995.

1st Movement: The Gesture premiered at the 1994 Cinanima festival, where it won the award for best film, and was subsequently screened in the International Critics' Week at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival."Five to Cannes". Playback, May 8, 1995. It was a Genie Award nominee for Best Theatrical Short Film at the 16th Genie Awards."Lepage leads Genie nominees". The Globe and Mail, November 8, 1995. and won the Rosie Award for Best Animation at the 1995 Alberta Film and Television Awards"Alberta Film and TV Awards winners". Playback, March 27, 1995. and the award for Best Animation at the 1995 Yorkton Film Festival."Award winners". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, May 29, 1995.

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