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After her divorce, a mother drives a rented moving truck with her daughter in the passenger seat. The two head into a new future, only to discover the pain and difficulties of leaving the past behind.

Anxiety is all around and fluttering constantly around us, making it hard to reconnect to reality. This animated short film gives a raw and abstract representation of the anxious mind.

Continuum is an animated shot exploring what happens when society's rejects reject society.

This animation uses watercolor paintings of child-morphed creatures, poppies and dismembered legs, based on collaged photos from my animation ‘Nothing ever happened’, to produce a commentary on loss. Set to the song ‘Love is a Hunter’ by Rae Spoon reminds us that love can be transformative, but sometimes the intensity of this transformation can be threatening. The surreal imagery reflects a childhood where love is very much defined by one’s ability to hide from violence and pain.

In Là-haut sur ces montagnes, Mclaren used for the first time a chain-of-mixes (chiaroscuro) on a pastel-drawn landscape. The idea for such a technique had been planted by seeing Alexandre Alexeïeff’s Night on Bare Mountain in the late thirties.

For the first time in Canadian history, 15 of Canada’s most acclaimed independent animators have come together to create a collaborative animated film. Yellow Sticky Notes | Canadian Anijam is an innovative and global approach to animation filmmaking and unites animators from coast to coast, from Vancouver to Halifax and all parts in between, to self reflect on one day of their lives using only 4x6 inch yellow sticky notes, a black pen and animation meditation.

What will happen to queer in a playmobil world.

Many cultures have viewed the lunar eclipse as a powerful reminder of the Day of Judgment. People chant prayers, sing songs and recite poetry, all in an effort to communicate with nature and the cosmic forces in the sky. They ask for forgiveness or understanding, as they yearn for what they fear is lost. “Deyzangeroo” is one such ritual, performed in the Iranian port city of Bushehr, on the shores of the Persian Gulf. The distinctive percussive music, rhythmic chants and tribal dances—an echo of the city’s colonial rule by the British and Portuguese, and the African slaves that followed—are performed with reverence, fear and magic. The ritual is believed to ward off evil spirits and take back the moon. And it works every time…

An eviction notice sends a tenant on a downward spiral, as he imagines the challenges he's about to face.

A depressed archaeologist is banished to work in Nova Scotia as punishment for taking too many drugs.

When a legendary escape artist comes up for parole after 30 years behind bars, a chance for freedom must be weighed against his infamous past.

Rusty the Robot finds himself working at the local sleepy gym. While the manager steps out, Rusty takes charge of the music and turns up the tempo with thrilling results!

Animated short documentary produced by the National Film Board of Canada in 1958, directed by Hugh O’Connor, focusing on school and education themes. (Note: Exact plot details not available; this is based on the title and known context.)

A love story set in the global anti-austerity demonstrations. As citizens take back their streets, two women meet and fall in love. What geometry of desire will help overthrow the state? What micro-politics of sharing and communality will provide fuel for demonstrations that will remove and replace the neo-liberal consensus? Cast in a palimpsest of images and sounds, as if there were no way to separate inside and out, the street and the bedroom.

“When he shot Une seconde (4 min., 20 sec.), a video animation without computer graphics, Richard Angers tried to adapt Norman McLaren’s animation techniques to video shooting and editing. A long-term solitary task, in which images are moved by hand, centimetre by centimetre, in which one plays with the number of images per second, and in which the ± pure quest for effects is more important than the message”. BLANCHARD, Louise. “Les vidéastes sont au ‘rendez-vous’”, Le Journal de Montréal, Montreal (9 February 1992), p. 38.

A story of the restoration of land after major destruction.

EDGAR a true bachelor, who devoted himself to the compulsive logic of reason and the categorical imperative, not only denies the existence of coincidences and stroke of fate, he also despises those to which the inexplicable happens. True to his motto: 'Every man forges his own destiny' EDGAR sees bad luck as something of others, if someone experiences is - it is just their own fault. But fate (in the form of truly strange angel) is sending him on an odd path of reformation.

Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it is being created

This short animation features four guests of curious demeanour who commit unforgivable acts at the dining table. Food flies everywhere while the guests prop their feet up and talk with their mouths full. Thankfully, Lady Fishbourne’s eating etiquette instructions will show these dinner party misfits the error of their ways.

Growing up isn’t easy, and it’s no exception for 12-year-old Ashley whose well-meaning mom has her own ideas about who Ashley should be. Finding herself in an impossible situation, Ashley must decide whether to wear a gaudy dress she hates or find the courage to stand up for herself and fight the inner monster that is holding her back.

Canada 3-D is a 60 second video, 3-D whirlwind tour of what it means to be Canadian, through the lens of director and animator, George Geertsen. Apparently it means a lot--everything from early explorers to one room schoolhouses, the Depression, the World Wars, the Baby Boom, EXPO 67, sports highlights and the one experience that every single Canadian shares: winter! A film without words.

A hand drawn rotoscope based animated micro film showing human's art in a way Ai could never take away from us. Depicted through a Samurai battle

‘Too esoteric, even for me,’ said McLaren about his The Flicker Film. The famous animator’s most abstract effort is marginalized to the point of being officially labelled as ‘unfinished,’ even though the explosion of high-intensity stroboscopic imagery created by rapidly alternating black and white frames, coupled to infectious syncopation on the soundtrack - looks and sounds to be not only complete enough, but utterly mind-blowing.

Grappling with the overwhelming influence of technology and feeling adrift in its wake.

A group of young, working children are terrorized and robbed by their stepfather.

An engaging illustration, by animation artist Rhoda Leyer, of the fable in which the warm sun proves to the cold wind that persuasion is better than force when it comes to making a man take off his coat.

This beautiful stop-motion animation love story was created by Sydney Smith and Jason Levangie. It was conceived as a music video for the song "Agricola & Sarah" performed and recorded by the Halifax, Nova Scotia band Gypsophilia (Sa-ba-da-OW!, 2009).

Words are just sounds that we have ascribed meaning to. But words are finite, the sounds we can generate are probably not. "An Echoing Memory of a Tongue" is an experimental/abstract visual trace of a stutter, the struggle that a person with chronic stuttering carries through his speech in an act of communication. In this broken-narrative, hand painted imagery, the combination of visuals, voices and the music tries to reflect the dialectical intricacies of weight and freedom within this struggle. This animation was inspired by my own stuttering since childhood, which undermined my own speech-acts, spawning different kinds of limitation.

In this film, which takes place to the rhythm of Schubert's Military March, the point, this first form, by its multiplication and the chosen orientations, allows us to see how it can be chained to form lines, shapes, surfaces, to form ensembles that ultimately occupy the entire surface of the screen.

Set in the same world as Archon Defender, this film follows the quest of a young woman, Desmerelle, as she confronts Lorem to free her twin sister Phaetra from the machine.

While dissecting a frog in Biology class, a 12-year-old boy speculates about what he would do if he were God.

Two young women out for a walk follow a trail of coloured stones on the ground, which leads them to danger. They are trapped in the Mangittatuarjuk’s lair, the Gnawer of Rocks. The women are terrified when they realize what the monster has been doing.

There’s been another toxic spill. For the city councillor responsible, it’s just a big nuisance, having to endure media scrutiny until the crisis has passed. For the creatures in the lake, however, it’s a catastrophe. One turtle, in her desperate hour, summons up the courage to leave her home and speak truth to power. Turns out there’s more at stake than just the lake. Animated directly under the camera by Lynn Smith using paint and collage, What Rhymes with Toxic is both funny and deadly serious, and a sharp reminder that we are all interconnected.

A poetic and tender letter where humour and imagination unfold in the story of endearing, carefully drawn characters who are half-human, half-creature.

A brief retelling of the history of colonization on Turtle Island through poetry, capturing the resilience and hope of the Indigenous people told through bold animation.

How To Clean Your Closet combines glitched clips from adult films with sound bites from an old tape cassette with the same title. Cleaning your closet couldn't be more fun!

Based on a correspondence with a gay friend in the 1960s, this collage film is a portrait of a person and a decade. Against a montage of found images, the narrator comments on life, love, and the American Dream.

In this poignant animated short, a film student navigates the shockwaves of hidden trauma and PTSD on a night out with friends.

Government authorities tell their citizens that decades ago, a virus killed most of the humans living on Earth. To prevent the eradication of the human species, the government has imposed the permanent isolation of adults, two by two, in cement chambers located in the heart of underground facilities. Locked up together for years, an ambitious young man and a good-natured old man have the daily task of turning valves fixed to the wall to distribute drinking water to a thirsty population. A chance reunion with a childhood friend could allow the young man to realize his dream of escaping their cell... and lead them to finally see the light of day.

Created for Nuit Rose, an arts festival at Pride Toronto, 2017. The previous year, Black Lives Matter - Toronto intervened in the Toronto Pride parade, resulting in significant changes to Pride 2017. Among the most controversial of BLM-Toronto's demands was the "Removal of police floats in Pride marches and parades." The artists were surprised and disturbed by the frequently negative response to this demand from largely cis white men that they encountered on social media and in person. These men had no memory, nor understanding, of the long history of police violence against the LGBT+ communities, and especially against People of Colour, a history that continues today. In solidarity with BLM-Toronto, the artists animated a satirical Shame Parade in another world, composed entirely of floats that document police violence against the LGBT+ communities in the greater Toronto area from the 1940s to the present day.

A documentary unlike any other, The Moody Brood explodes the myth of the idealized, normal family-a popular and pervasive post-WWII notion. The film examines issues universal to all families: the effects of community and religion, the influence of siblings, and the moral standards imposed by parents. Award-winning filmmaker Lulu Keating traces the lives of her 10 siblings from their childhood in the 1940s to present day, from a small Catholic community to the world stage. Along the way, she asks some difficult questions: Can we, as adults, shed past experiences? Or do they shape our whole lives?

Scratched directly onto 35mm film stock, this abstract film is a visual interpretation of a piece for solo violin based on a Bosnian popular song from Bosnia-Herzegovina. The composer, Malcolm Goldstein, describes it as a gesture of hope for peace in that land ravaged by war during the 1990s.

An animated tale about Travis, the night cleaner at a popular bathhouse.

Thanksgiving dinner, from the turkey's point of view.

New York, 1905. Visionary inventor Nikola Tesla makes one last appeal to J.P. Morgan, his onetime benefactor.

In the wild Sonoran desert, the greatest criminal of the Far-West suffers the wrath of a four years old child after stealing her ice cream cone.

This film is based on one year in the filmmaker's fractured life. Rotoscoped figures are layered with stills and live video footage to create an open narrative based on events in his life that took place in 1975. He was 13 and this was a pivotal year for him in many ways. He discovered the magic of animation and was hooked. He made his first animated film with his best friend, they locked themselves away for the whole summer to complete it. 1975 was also the year that he had his first sexual experience, with said best friend. It was a time of great excitement, confusion, fear and withdrawal.

This abstract film, full of rich colours and textures, was created thanks to an inventive use of digital technology. It grew out of an unusual process of interchange between the painter Jean Detheux and the composer Jean Derome. The result is a rare meeting of images and music. What we get is an intense meditation on a world in constant renewal, where every form that emerges is immediately engulfed by the next one. It constitutes a sort of diptych with the film Rupture, which follows. A film without words.

Trevor considers, with the help of animation, a piece of fan mail he received.

From a horizontal line (a trail?, a border?, a horizon?) unravel stories, divisions, violence, escapes, as the sweet melody of Narrow Line by Mama's Broke sheds tears of pessimism and disillusionment.

A lich brings home groceries for her undead housemates.

An animated short film about a dog and his boy.

An experimental animation with original sound exploring “how identity development is informed (and sometimes controlled) by psychiatry’s relationship with capitalism and its broader political objectives.” The video focuses on three themes: the history of psychiatry and its relationship to capitalism/consumerism in North America, the MKULTRA experiments in Montreal during the Cold War, and how the self-help movement depoliticized leftist movements after 1960s.The video combines MacCormack’s own research inspired by the work of British documentarian Alan Curtis, whose The Century of the Self (2002, 240 minutes) is one of many texts and influences apparent in this sweeping work.

A chilling experimental meditation on the lies in which we tell ourselves expressed through the starkly minimalist dioramic presentation of a seemingly empty home.

The enchanting journey of a young boy named David and the paper airplane he creates, which becomes a symbol of hope, resilience, and the unbreakable bond of family...

The film offers a comical look at dangers of addiction and the difficulties of quitting through the story of a chain smoker.

A lively classroom discussion starter, this animated film uses satirical humor to present some of the difficulties graduating students may encounter when looking for work. The film tells of two young people whose career ambitions seem constantly to be thwarted. Their scramble to make a living leads both of them through a succession of odd jobs and, by a strange twist of fate, to a remote lumbering camp. In following their picaresque adventures, the film explores the attitudes needed for surviving in an uncertain world and promotes reflection on how to bridge the gap between ideals and reality.

In the garden the dreamer dreams about sweet smelling metaphors. Over the course of this film animation, transformations occur that dissolve human violence into peaceful tranquility.

Sinclaire embarks on a killing spree to collect sin in the form of candy under the command of her dead mother from Hell.

Tess and Deborah are having marital problems, will they be able to surmount them?