David Ehrlich

David Ehrlich is an American independent animator based in Vermont who has made abstract, meditative hand-drawn and clay animation since the 1970s. He studied at Cornell University, the University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University, where he completed an MFA in film. He taught animation at Dartmouth College from 1992 to 2017, where he is now professor emeritus, and has been a guest professor at the Beijing Film Academy, the Communication University of China and other animation schools in China. He served on the executive board of ASIFA, the International Animated Film Association, from 1988 to 2000, including as its vice-president.