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We are constantly in conversation with the Other, either symbolically or literally. In the process of responding to the symbolic Other, it is hard to tell if the response is to the subject or our own projection. This animation tries to visualize this question within the social contact of an individual or a crowd.
A poetic animated short film illustrating the devastating realities of violence against women.
Through their notebooks and landscape sketches, a grandmother and her granddaughter discuss death, migration, memory, and expression.
In this short film, Toronto artist Petra Tolley, who has Down syndrome, performs a soliloquy that encapsulates her distinctive take on the social self. Drawing from her emotional experiences, she illustrates what it feels like to be “in the middle.” Employing rotoscopy, hand-drawn animation techniques and subtle stereoscopic 3D, the film captures Petra as she engages the camera with unflinching directness and dignity.
An experimental animation and documentary about diasporic desires for foundational myths. Seeking a home in reclaiming ones' ancestry and seeking a self in reappropriated narratives. What is found is an identity, one that is fragmented, but open. Features a soundtrack by Julie Matson.
The circle of life for a shooting star.
It’s a quack attack! You better stand back.
The wind is one of the strongest natural forces around us. Because it is generated by temperature differences in air masses, wind power is, in fact, a form of solar energy. Harness the Wind traces the history of attempts to control and use wind energy, and projects into the future to visualize the potential of wind-power technology.
Two children prove to be the most courageous circus performers of them all.
This is a didactic film in disguise. A progression of brilliant geometric shapes bombard the screen to the insistent beat of drums. The filmmaker programmed a computer to coordinate a highly complex operation involving an electronic beam of light, colour filters and a camera. This animation film, without words, is designed to expose the power of the cinematic medium, and to illustrate the abstract nature of time.
Poetic and melancholic evocation of a few fleeting moments in the life of Fernand, a little boy who lives with his mother Josette, his aunt Louise and a facetious dog, Colchique.
After 25 years of blindness, Dan gets a chance to see his wife and children for the very first time. It may also be his last.
An intimate exploration of the bodies belonging to six queer individuals. This animation, made up of hundreds of high-resolution photographs, unabashedly examines the evidence of physical change and transformation: top surgery scars, tattoos, and other traces. The bodies are fragmented, as are the stories affiliated with these traces, and identities remain delightfully elusive. “Borders” is available as a single-channel work or as an extended installation.
Pieck finds Barnaby's Magic Carnival of Marvels, a place where imagination and fun come hand in hand.
Perseus risks his life for the head of Medusa.
A little good will goes a long way--between persons, and between nations. That is the lesson to be learned from this animated film. It begins with a confrontation between a man who grows flowers and a technologist who operates computers. A flower pops up in the computer room; a computer tape appears in the garden. Each man destroys the "foreign object." When they come face to face they discover that understanding is better than distrust, respect better than hostility.
Ponytail follows several inflicted characters and recounts the ways in which they find resolve. A series of scenarios held together by an attraction to failure and its spectacle describe the characters’ malfunction – their inability to fulfill personal desire. Compelled by the consequences and rewards of their attempts they question their own trajectory. Ponytail presents a unique society of characters that employ elements of melodrama, performative monologue and traditional narrative structure.
An animated film, based on an Indigenous comic-strip character created by Duke Redbird, telling the story of a young man who leaves the reserve to make his way in the city. Eventually he returns to the reserve and the ways of his people.
An explorer adventures into an unknown world, yet it seems that he has been there before.
Risqué Business is about a group of exotic dancers charming a lonely club patron and robbing him by using their wiles.
When a timid young boy named Kip is separated from his dog Molly, he must face terrifying supernatural forces in order to try and get her back.
A Canadian Parliament, with many cameos, argues and fights over where to go for lunch.
A 1-Mintue animated short film to discourage smoking.
A young woman begins to discover what it means to be a lesbian through dating her first girlfriend and the reactions that arise in her family.
Through pixilation a male centerfold attempts to embellish his features only to take on more than he can handle.
The adventures of a porn potato versus pop ups.
Dive down into the deep blue sea with Finny The Shark and friends. You’ll see a fish, an octopus, a whale, a shark, a jellyfish, and a starfish!
The film explores the way traditional hunting in Nunavut has evolved so that it can continue to play a vital role in contemporary Inuit culture.
A talented, but doomed, gentleman tries to participate in a properly British game of charades.
This animated documentary visualizes an interview with Keyvan Mahjoor, an Iranian visual artist living and working in Montreal, Canada.
A man tries to direct his own dreams, but nothing goes as planned. While sculpture-like props and dreamlike soundscapes swirl around him, he’s swept into a world where he is a prisoner of his own subconsciousness. In this dreamscape, his deepest feelings and desires have a life of their own. So, who is truly in control?
Drawn directly onto 35mm motion picture film without the use of camera or musical instruments, a visual and aural feast for the senses.
KATALOG OF FLAWS is a fever dream. There are many false endings, keep watching.
A fantastical journey of a salesman and his animal friends discovering the meaning of friendship.
Animated images showing the variety of people who live in Canada.
When all the voices have been silenced, only one will remain. And when this last voice is no longer heard...
In this short animation based on an Inuit legend, a goose captures the fancy of an owl, a weakness for which he will pay dearly. The sound effects and voices are Inuktitut, but the animation leaves no doubt as to the unfolding action. A story with the wry humor characteristic of many Inuit tales.
A fearful cat must face her fears in an unsettling forest.
"Wave Form" explores movie viewing, sharing and making as a means of confronting the experience of mental illness. It illuminates the sustaining, transformative powers of film by transforming a variety of “waves” from cinematic history—ocean waves, waving hands, waves of soldiers—through the luma waveform scope, a technical feature of movie editing software. Converted into luma waveforms, the original filmic images are rendered unrecognizable, their representational nature exchanged for a ghostly, mesmerizing shimmer.
Voicemails get lost and found in space in this thoughtful commentary on the fractured act of communication and the spaces between people trying to express themselves. Inspired by found sound of missed voicemails, animated in inky black and electric colour, and produced as part of the 10th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship, in collaboration with the Mexican Film Institute.
Utilizing human pixillation, Isabelle's demand to nurture conjures a variety of sensations... perverse, kitsch, sweet witch voodoo?
Genevieve has a small hole in the leg. A trace of her past. She shares all the story in this short animated documentary.
The director puns on the then emerging genre of "rock videos," by bringing real rocks to life under the animation camera.
Life in Berry Bitty City is always better when Strawberry and her friends try their berry best! Princess Berrykin decides to bring back an old tradition, and Blueberry spends so much time worrying about manners that she forgets what's really important. When a Good Citizens Club is formed, Plum learns that fitting in with others is fine, as long as she follows her heart. Lemon and Raspberry work together to clean up a playground, and soon see the berrytastic value of teamwork. Strawberry helps out the Postmaster Bee, who shows her the value of honest effort. It's friendship and helping hands to the rescue in these sweet, fun-filled adventures!
The film collects field recordings and drawing filled with artifacts, amplified noises, and live analog processing, peering into the fringes of fleeting moments.
A scarecrow who tries to defend his garden from a crow.
Satirical short animation; on the Earth's beauty and how to ruin it.
Inspired by the performative tradition that combines electronic sound and video art, Le Révélateur's live performance is the result of an intermedial dialogue between video artist Sabrina Ratté and electronic music composer Roger Tellier-Craig. Through the creation of abstract architectural structures and electronic landscapes, Ratté’s video images are in constant dialogue with the ethereal sounds and futuristic pulses generated by Tellier-Craig. Together, they aim to create an immersive audio-visual experience where sound and image are inseparable.
Sofia, a young trumpeter, prepares herself for the reunion with her childhood friend Paula. But fearing that their bond may have faded, Sofia revisits their memories to give her a welcoming gift - a song.
An ancestral house builds itself, comes to life, and shows us its story spanning one hundred fifty years. Through the ages, it allows us to perceive the passage of time.
A slave breaks his chains and attempts to overthrow an old tyrant.
This animated short tells the story of Anansi, a little spider who is tired of being snubbed by other the jungle animals, especially Mr. Tiger. As Anansi plots and schemes to change things, he realizes he can't gain respect by putting others down.
Photographic images, scenes of everyday life. Connected together, a new landscape emerges.
An animated presentation of Silent Night, Come All Ye Faithful, Good King Wenceslaus, Joy to the World, and What Child Is This sung by the Leslie Bell Singers.
Exploding vinyl records, stereo gear, and cables come to life.
An elderly Japanese man visits a strange island, where he disappears in his own memories.
Tribute to director, screenwriter and actress Sarah Polley. A whimsical, playful film tells the story of the kinds of stories Polley tells, using humorous, simple line animation, the film comments on the messiness of life and art.