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((Infobox film
| name           = Imagination
| image          = Imagvanguardfinalfront.jpg
| alt            = 
| caption        = cover art for ''Imagination''
| director       = [[Eric Leiser]]
| producer       = [[Jules Engel]]<br/>Laura Leiser<br/>[[Joseph Cahill]]<br/>[[Robert Berry]]
| writer         = Eric Leiser<br/>Jeffrey Leiser
| starring       = Ed Gildersleeve<br/>Jessi Haddad<br/>Nikki Haddad<br/>Courtney Sanford
| music          = Jeffrey Leiser
| cinematography = Nathan Meier<br/>[[animation]]: Eric Leiser
| editing        = Eric Leiser<br/>Tyler Phillips
| studio         = Albino Fawn Productions
| distributor    = Vanguard International Cinema
| released       = ((Film date|2007|04|30|Aarhus Festival of Independent Arts))
| runtime        = 70 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         =
| gross          = 
))
'''''Imagination''''' is a 2007 [[United States|American]] [[Experimental film|avant-garde]] [[animated film|animated]]/[[live action]] [[feature film|film]], and the first [[feature length]] project directed by [[Eric Leiser]], about young twin sisters who have [[Asperger syndrome]].<ref name="cartoonbrew"/><ref name="filmjournal" />

==Production and release==
The project was shot on locations in [[Prague]], [[Czech Republic]], [[Los Angeles]] and [[San Francisco]]. The film premiered on April 30, 2007 at the 2007 AFIA film festival in Aarhus, Denmark, and was released theatrically in the United States on July 6, 2007, and worldwide by Vanguard International Cinema on February 26, 2008. The [[DVD]] release contains extra footage that includes "Making Imagination", "Behind the animation", "Q&A with filmmakers", and "Isolated scenes", as well as special cuts of the soundtrack.<ref name="amg"/> It was also featured at the [[Istanbul International Film Festival|International Animated Film Festival]] in [[Istanbul]] in December 2007.<ref>((cite news| url =http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=128703&bolum=112 |title=Animation film festival offers nearly 300 films|work= [[Today's Zaman]]|date= December 6, 2007|language=Turkish)) ((dead link|date= October 2016))</ref>

==Synopsis==
Redheaded twins Anna (Nikki Haddad) and Sarah (Jessi Haddad) Woodruff, roughly 10 or 11 years old, both have [[Asperger syndrome|Asperger]], an [[autism spectrum disorder]] (ASD), and Sarah is going blind. Child psychologist and researcher Dr. Reineger (Edmund Gildersleeve) tries to assure their parents (Courtney Sanford, Travis Poelle) that the kids are smart and "intricately involved in their own imagination". The children enter an institute to be studied, two family tragedies occur, and the girls escape the institution. Throughout much of the film, we see a magical, distorted world through their eyes.

==Critical response==
[[Frank Lovece]] of ''[[Film Journal International]]'' found this "sad and hypnotic tale" a film that "well evokes the trauma, abandonment fears and magical reality of childhood", and that the film "sweeps us through an array of gently bizarre beasties, times and places, such as a primordial forest where the white elms are covered with eyes. The most amazing sequence involves an earthquake evinced solely through shaky camera, sound effects, stop-motion dirt and rocks and rapid-fire cuts."<ref name="filmjournal"/>

[[Joe Leydon]] of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' was less impressed, writing of the film that it was "[s]tylistically pretentious and narratively impenetrable", with "[p]erformances [that] are amateurish at best, and threadbare production values — best typified by a scene where an earthquake is indicated with nothing more than herky-jerky camera movements — recall such campy cheapies as ''[[Manos: The Hands of Fate]]''."  He did grant that "its flashes of imaginative animation might be enough to tempt exceptionally hardy festgoers."<ref name="variety"/>

Douglas Perry of ''[[The Oregonian]]'' found that the animated portions of the film had "buckets of ambition and, well, imagination; the surreal visuals are always interesting and at times pretty incredible. Eric Leiser's proficiency and flair in employing a variety of animation techniques is most impressive." Conversely, he found "the live-action scenes ... visually dull and amateurishly acted, weighed down by a ponderous, confusing plot concerning bizarre, quasi-spiritual visions".<ref name="theoregonian"/>

[[DVD Talk]] called it "a wonderful film to WATCH, allowing yourself to simply sit back and allow the images to wash over you. Leiser may lean toward early [[David Lynch]], especially when it comes to mixing the beautiful with the disturbing, but there are also snippets of [[Ken Russell]] and [[Darren Aronofsky]] in his style and approach." The reviewer found the characters one-dimensional and forgettable, writing that, "[o]n the human side of things, ''Imagination'' is only decent'", but countered that "thanks to the outsized originality of the man behind the camera, this is one eclectic offering that stays with you long after it's over."<ref name="dvdtalk"/>

''[[DVD Verdict]]'' said, "The appropriately-titled ''Imagination'' is a fascinating watch. Leiser, who has an animation background, employs every animation style he knows throughout the film, creating one of the most visually rich movies of recent years."<ref name="dvdverdict"/>

Courtney Ferguson of ''[[The Portland Mercury]]'' considered the musical score and the animation to be "one of the ... reasons to continue watching" and called ithem "interesting and surreal". She felt overall that "it's nearly impossible to get past [the film's] bad storyline and artsy drudgery".<ref>((cite news | last=Ferguson | first=Courtney | url=http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Content?oid=711351&category=22191 | title=Film Shorts | work=[[The Portland Mercury]] | date=February 28, 2008 | location=Portland, Oregon | accessdate=October 21, 2016 | archivedate=October 22, 2016 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161022092347/http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Content?oid=711351&category=22191 | url-status=live ))</ref>

==Partial cast==
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* Ed K. Gildersleeve as Dr. Reineger
* Nikki Haddad as Anna Woodruff
* Jessi Haddad as Sarah Woodruff
* Courtney Sanford as Janice Woodruff
* Travis Poelle as Roland Woodruff
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* Anthony Caraday as Young Doctor Reineger
* Bob Gerlach as Pastor Bob
* Kevin Le as Kevin
* John Le as John
((col-end))

==References==
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<ref name="cartoonbrew">((cite web|url=http://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/imagination-by-eric-leiser.html |title=''Imagination'' |author=Amid |date=July 4, 2007 |work=[[Cartoon Brew]] |accessdate=4 September 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100116112458/http://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/imagination-by-eric-leiser.html |archivedate=January 16, 2010 ))</ref>

<ref name="filmjournal">((cite news|url=http://www.filmjournal.com/filmjournal/esearch/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003641759 |title= ''Imagination'' |last=Lovece |first=Frank |author-link= Frank Lovece |work= [[Film Journal International]] |accessdate= October 21, 2016 |archivedate= March 13, 2016 |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20160313120150/http://www.filmjournal.com/node/17285 | url-status=live))</ref>

<ref name="variety">((cite news |url= https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117935204.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&p=0 |title= ''Imagination'' |last=Leydon |first=Joe |date= October 24, 2007 |work= [[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |accessdate= September 4, 2010))</ref>

<ref name="theoregonian">((cite news|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/movies/index.ssf/2008/02/movie_reviews.html|title=Movie Reviews: "Note by Note," "Delirious," "Living in Oblivion" and "Imagination"|last=Perry|first=Douglas|date=February 28, 2008|work=[[The Oregonian]]|accessdate=September 4, 2010| archivedate= January 30, 2013| archiveurl = https://archive.today/20130130225014/http://www.oregonlive.com/movies/index.ssf/2008/02/movie_reviews.html))</ref>

<ref name="dvdtalk">((cite web|url=https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/34030/imagination/|title=DVD review: ''Imagination''|last=Gibron|first=Bill|date=February 26, 2008|publisher=[[DVD Talk]]|accessdate=September 4, 2010))</ref>

<ref name="dvdverdict">((cite web|url=https://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/imagination.php|title=DVD review: ''Imagination''|last=McEntire|first=Mac|date=May 9, 2008|publisher=[[DVD Verdict]]|accessdate=September 4, 2010|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100326064128/http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/imagination.php|archivedate=March 26, 2010))</ref>

<ref name="amg">((cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/dvd/imagination-186943/menu|title=''Imagination'' DVD|publisher=[[All Movie Guide]]|accessdate=September 4, 2010))((dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes ))</ref>

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==External links==
* ((IMDb title|id=0970519|title=Imagination))
* ((Amg movie|id=429737|title=Imagination))
* ((Official website|http://www.albinofawn.com))

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