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A brief experience of laser engraving and cutting on 16mm film, about the first snows of autumn, mushrooms and ferns, with lively music.

This animated short describes an incident in the War of 1812. Here, colourful drawings give a satirical twist to the engagement between a British ship, the H.M.S. Shannon, and an American ship, the U.S.S. Chesapeake. Sung to guitar accompaniment by Canadian folksinger Tom Kines.

An animated Raeside cartoon from 1990. The transportation of toxic waste.

An old woman prepares to die. Accompanied by her granddaughter, she reflects on the memories of her life, and on the profound experience of being human, before taking the next step into the unknown.

A father's addiction to gambling on Pachinko machines has led to the neglect of his young daughter. Looking through the father's mind, the fighting between addiction and guilt, and the fight of love and compassion are visible.

John Weldon dissects the nature of personal space, community, and crime and punishment in this macabre whimsy. Employing the simplest of animation styles to enhance a mock Zen spirituality, Weldon and composer Chris Crilly debate the Old Testament notion of "punishment fitting the crime." A film without words.

Based on the classic Marlene Dietrich song this 3-D film explodes and celebrates the clichés and myths of human passion.

Someone dreams of falling from a building.

Just as he does every morning, a man is preparing to jump into his car and head off to work when the remote control gizmo refuses to cooperate.

Short featuring stop motion animation.

Pustulations” is a short animated film using the painting-on-glass technique. It is about one woman’s compulsion to pick at her skin and the purulent, pustular world beneath it.

An animated film showing the sowing, reaping, and milling of wheat, the baking of bread and service to the lord of the manor in medieval Britain.

This short cartoon tells the story of a bear who didn’t believe in Christmas. His main problem with this most magical of holidays? Too many Santas. How would he ever recognize the real one? Alone, out of a job, he goes to drown his sorrows, but back in his lonely room, for all his doubts, the Christmas spirit makes a surprise call.

On a blue background, a series of numbers (1 to 5) begin to appear, forming simple arithmetic equations that create a pattern. Numbers and symbols move as the pattern grows, to a soundtrack of simple beats.

Some of life's most profound questions are tackled by ten children ranging in age from six to eleven. They give their spontaneous views on God, the beginning of life, what happens to the spirit when one dies, where one's soul goes at night, and numerous other questions about life. The magic of animation and modern camera techniques illustrate the children's imaginative ruminations and conclusions.

A Norman McLaren Animated Film

An indefatigable citizen grabs his bootstraps and lives the dream!

This animated short tells the story of a young boy who finds an injured snow goose and nurses it back to health. Constant companions through the sun-filled days of summer, the two sadly separate in the fall when the bird obeys the call to join its flock for the annual flight south. Will the friendship endure?

A disabled man living in Ottawa at the time of the freedom convoy protests ruminates on the concept of freedom.

A woman travels through time and memory, from savannahs to the cosmos, searching for a mysterious egg that will reveal her future. Along the way, she draws strength from the blood memory of her ancestors. This animated short is a moving allegory about lineage and enduring resilience across millennia.

This animated film uses the Arctic landscape and the traditional Inuit characters of the Bear, the Seal and the Owl to raise young people's awareness about the harmful effects of substance abuse. A polar bear experiences hallucinations after inhaling fumes from an abandoned gas can. A nearby owl and seal help to show the bear the error of his ways, thus preventing him from falling further into addiction. This film was an initiative of the Natives of the Institution La Macaza to warn children of the dangers of inhaling toxic chemicals.

In this animated short Malcolm Sutherland lovingly pokes fun at the transient yet timeless life of the beach tourist. Animated ink on paper, made in 2007.

This is both a comic and dark journey that explores a woman's love-hate relationship with her body and her femininity. It highlights the powerful symbolism that breasts evoke for everyone.

An interactive film for computers.

An unconventional version of The Christmas Carol.

A Vampire hunter teaches his 8 year old apprentice how to kill.

An experimental animation about four people at a beach, three men and one woman.

Biomes is a series of 4 paintings in motion inspired by the the surrealist landscapes of Tanguy and Kay Sage. Digital and analog video techniques are used to simulate painterly effects in an interplay between soft, harsh, mat and shiny surfaces, different shades of light and the illusion of depth or flatness. Biomes are portraits of post human environments where uncanny life forms materialize and slowly detach themselves from the horizon, to finally melt into their respective landscapes.

In this beautifully animated documentary short, filmmaker Lyana Patrick narrates her family’s powerful story of love and survival at Lejac Indian Residential School.

Homage to the single frame of film and the colour Pink in 1/24 of a second. 16mm scratch on film image with handmade optical sounds.

First entry for Dolly Baby, an upcoming animated franchise. In a dystopian future, Dolly, a reconditioned and outlawed human, seeks refuge in a bar after a bloody fight against several guards. As she tries to catch her breath while pouring a drink, the door of the bar suddenly opens behind her...

Two hundred years ago Captain Cook stopped briefly at Nootka Sound. This animated vignette depicts how he began the sea otter trade which led to the development of the Pacific north west.

This work was commissioned for the 20th Anniversary Edition of the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival and made possible by support from the 2016 Champion and Patron Members of Reel Asian. Chinese Zodiac is 60-years cycle by 10 heavenly elements and 12 earthly animals, 20th anniversary is just one third. In this movie appearing and changing into 20 elements from 1997 that was started the festival to 2016.

Remote desktop animations that meddle in a deserted work space. Applications of corporate surrealism and business magical realism in a computer film.

In this animated short, young Winston, who suffers from chronic asthma, isn’t able to participate in the everyday activities of his peers and classmates. He copes with the predicament through his vivid imagination, with paper and crayons. On one particularly rainy afternoon, Winston discovers that the magic of imagination has the power to transform and empower, and his skills and talents save the day.

Starving for companionship, Quinn pursues an unorthodox approach to resolving her intense loneliness.

An important human story told from the perspective of mixed race blood cancer patients who are forced to reflect on their multiracial identities and complex genetics as they struggle with a seemingly impossible search to find bone marrow donors, all while exploring what role race plays in medicine.

A short film set in the universe of 'KPop Demon Hunters' created as part of Sony Pictures Animation and Sony Pictures Imageworks' LENS (Leading and Empowering New Storytellers) mentorship program. Plot TBA.

A child by all means tries to gain her father's affection, but the family dog proves to be a fierce rival.

Combining drawing and collage, this animated film captures the deep attachment bond between Edna, a hospitalized baby, and friends of her parents who regularly visit to comfort her, exploring themes of connection, life, grief, and vulnerability with poetic grace.

This animated short features Leonard, a 6-year-old boy with the unusual hobby of collecting sounds. Transforming household noises around him into exciting fantasies, he creates an adventure story for his older brother in which knights chase away monsters and perform other daring deeds.

This animated short film is based on a real story and sets in China during the Cultural Revolution in 1967, It is about a young boy Liang Liang, whose family is suddenly taken to the countryside by Red Guards. He is able to grab the only thing he treasures which is a western style music box, and is careful not to expose it to the red guards since it was linked to western culture.

This animated short film is an interpretation of Earle Birney's poem “Trawna Tuh Belvul by Knayjim Psifik.” Using finely crafted cut-out animation, the film retells a memorable experience of the journey from Toronto to Belleville, Ontario.

An experimental animation that illustrates a surreal internal landscape occupied by child creatures and animal imagery. A child goes off to school and must reevaluate everything they have known. Fish, dogs, cats & birds interact with fish tanks, living room furniture, poppies, school busses and the first artificial heart technology. They morph and combine with one another, changing masks and creating new creatures in the strangely internalized and claustrophobic environment that they inhabit. Relationships between the objects, animals and sound create a commentary on seeing and invisibility as experienced by the body. The menacing feeling of animalistic predators and prey seeps into every scene, as odd sexual metaphors manifest with alien-like qualities. Everything points against one of the narrative claims that, “Nothing ever happened.”

In search of a way out..To the other side of daily routines of modern life..Is there any message left for us to listen to? Are we gonna succeed or remain out of touch?..

Witness an innocent little lizard be subjected to thousands of years of technological development in a continuous morphing transition. From a stone wheel to a barrage of factory products, Redevolve snaps nature out of its tranquil state to show us the wonders of high-paced productivity and the toll that industrialization has had on our ability to take things slow and simmer under the sun.

When a young, genderqueer, non-binary brown kid gets bullied due to their unique moustache, they find newfound confidence and pride in their facial hair after a heartwarming turn of events.

Revisit the legendary 1990 tire fire of St-Amable, QC as a small-time UFOlogy reporter seeks out a woman rumoured to have been abducted by aliens, and discovers a brilliant blind sculptor. An animated walk on the weird side with a distinctive local flavour

A collection of unused visual and audio concepts from Patrick Richardson presented in the rough state they were abandoned in before becoming fully realized.

A hunter is pursued when he accidentally shoots a man he mistook for a stag.

This cameraless animation is about the 1:1 relationship between sound & picture: the 1:1 concept became the structure for the entire piece and spawns further thought about relationships between elements in cinema (artist to medium, viewer to screen, projector to film).

Life throws curveballs, how you react decides if you make it through. We follow an elementary schoolgirl terrified of sports who survives a chaotic ball game by bouncing a ball off her face. By the end of the game, she’s completely transformed.

Flash of a train ride: glances of strangers, means of transportation, scenery flowing away. To travel is to pause in limbo.

It is a late summer night. An old lady walks into the laundromat, she fills the washing machine with a heavy load of belongings: clothes, blankets, shoes, magazines, items from her past and everyday life... and eventually, herself.

Geométrika is a mathematical odyssey that invites viewers on an experimental journey through the geometric wonders of the universe, reminiscent of watching floaters under your eyelids. Shot on 16mm, hand painted and developed. Music composed by Kevin Blundell.

Using archival footage and the melodrama outlined in an email from a junk inbox, worlds of isolation and desperation collide in an ultra short film that brings to life a tale designed to scam someone.

An animated look into a the personal experiences of someone in prolonged segregation as a young offender.

Fester Fish returns in another throwback to classic theatrical cartoons with a dose of modern black humor.