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In Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, there occurs a daily natural phenomenon. At dusk thousands of crows appear, as if out of no where, in the sky over the city, and flock to Victoria Park at the water’s edge. They amass in such numbers that they turn entire trees black and fill the sky with a symphony of haunting cries.
Through contemplation of our place within the universe, (in)significant is a mixed-media film that finds beauty in simple moments, anchored in the warmth of the sun on a nostalgic summer day.
The blizzard has finally rolled in, just before the holidays. What could possibly go wrong when 2 polar opposites have to spend 3 days together?
Short animation directed by Scott Higgs
Two men escape from prison in order to attend their daughter’s wedding, and as the Warden tries to stop them, wacky hijinks ensue along the way.
In this first of Lulu Keating's films, she animates photos she's accumulated that celebrate her extroverted spirit.
Also known as Atomic Dragons, this film animation confronts the environmental issue of atomic waste. Faced with the long life of atomic waste, where the devil shall we store it?
A bored goth girl briefly animates and narrates 8 operas (with no music), catalogs the scandalous actions, and counts the deaths (36). The operas included are La Traviata, Carmen, Don Giovanni, Aida, Tosca, Tristan and Isolde, Madame Butterfly, and The Ring of the Nielbelung.
Set in an agrarian future, Unca Trans is a short animated Super 8 film in which the title character pontificates about gender theory and activism back in the 2000s.
Two vultures isolated in the middle of an Arizona desert fight for the last bastion of food left which happens to be a rotting carcass.
T-Pose is an intervention at the meeting point of games, dance, and choreography. The work presents a critical and creative performance of the habitual, ritualized movements of video games. Beginning with various sets of stock animations for games (shooting, swinging a sword, punching, etc.), T-Pose then situates these movements in a continuously-developing, infinitely variable, ritualistic dance. The procedural, contingent nature of the dance allows for the creative ‘drift’ between the written score (the tropes and animations) and the ritualized performance which differs each time.
Daisy Daisy, Old McDonald Had a Farm, Home on the Range, and Alouette are sung by the Four Gentlemen Quartet. Animated cartoons illustrate these songs.
A child explains what a genocide is.
Aphantasia, the inability to generate mental images, affects 1 to 3% of the population. In my early twenties, I learned that my mind was blind. It was quite a paradigm shift to realize that "visualizing" isn't a metaphor.
One person wakes up in the morning with the ability to choose which gender they would like to be for the day. challenging notions and norms around gender and sexuality, our hero explores an array of ways of sharing fun and intimacy.
A prison security system detects an explosion. All systems engage to contain the jailbreak. Every decision matters. Every millisecond counts. Panoptic is a kinetic visceral experience that unfolds entirely from the point of view of an unfeeling computer system.
A fisherwoman catches a prey that is revealed to be strange.
When navigating a labrynth, be wary of any surprise portals.
A film by Zahid Jiwa.
"Field of Vision" moves between the real and the imagined, the built and natural worlds, and explores how we see with both our eyes and our minds. It weaves together layers of images and sounds with police blotter reports and descriptions of visual and auditory hallucinations.
A Canadian prairie farm family has a tough beginning on their new farm.
The history of the development of modern logging techniques on the British Columbia coast.
Ouroboros spins a loose narrative of joy, grief, death and rebirth, all told through looping images printed on physical animation devices known as phonotropes. Like the ouroboros, a symbolic snake that devours its own tail, everything in life is a loop.
Inspired by a woodcut from a university art collection, this animation explores issues of myth, art, history, education and sexual violence.
I Met a Man is a piece of whimsy inspired by the ever present whistling wind on the Irish coast of County Cork where the filmmaker was living when she made the film. The film is scratched in 35mm film stock with color added in video postproduction.
It’s 10pm and Gorbe arrives home from a long, Exhausting day of work. She hears a buzzing noise. It’s an electric razor, left to charge on the counter of the washroom. But, the razor won’t turn off.
A devil makes a violent attempt to change himself into a heavenly creature. His evil process backfires when he is confronted with the creatures from within.
An animated tale of girl meets girl set against a Montreal cityscape. From black and white into vibrant colour, the city comes alive as their recognition and connection grows.
A compilation of various tests, techniques and experiments compiled from the 1940s - 1950s. Silent film.
Little Daisy is on her first visit to the laundromat to wash her teddy! Her fear of the big, loud machines holds her back, but with the help of her mother and an unexpected new friend, she’ll learn that everything filthy needs to get washed…
In a lively animated lesson about the do's and don'ts of fire and outdoor safety, the Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe takes all her children and Cousin Jim off on a summer camping trip. And to make sure that needless accidents won't spoil their fun, she plays it smart by observing the rules. Cousin Jim, however, unaware of rules, has several close calls with disaster until the Old Lady steps in and teaches him the ABCs of safe, enjoyable outdoor living. When it comes to fire prevention, the Old Lady knows just what to do. Do you?
An acid-tripping pair of suburban revolutionaries accidentally shoot their war veteran neighbor's dog to fluffy red pieces. What to do? Well, here's what they probably *shouldn't* do...
Invoking the wrath of an ancient terror, a mother and daughter must rely on one another to confront the trauma that has plagued their family over generations.
The ritual begins by summoning unseen forces. The doll’s joints twitch eerily. The ritualistic world breathes forth otherworldly presences, and they stir, bringing dread to the dark night.
The film promotes Canada's Food Rules in an effort to get Canadians to be strong and healthy by getting the necessary vitamins in their diet. A series of healthy foods, all that originate from farm raised items, are shown, emanating from those images the lettered vitamin names of which those foods are a rich source. Set against barn dance music, the letters dance to the score.
A large, lizard-like monster emerges from Moira Lake and attacks the town of Madoc. The citizens of Madoc work together to end its tyranny.
Two young girls embark on a journey, strengthening their bond as they set out to experience the world, guided by nothing but the strength of their companionship.
After the death of her work partner, Detective Jamie is terrorized by a series of strange and horrifying hallucinations.
Alice wakes from a dream about her husband, kissing him good morning, and begins her chores. But something is wrong with her routine.
The fisherman is the bored that he is imagining catching a whale with his fishing rod. The short film is about the imagination when we are bored.
A short walk in Sicily.
Objets-monde is interested in the traces that humans leave on the environment as well as the way in which these become an intrinsic part of our ecosystem. Abandoned objects, such as cars and computer screens, were captured with the help of photogrammetry to create a video collage composed of extracts from reality. Re-contextualized in disproportionately large proportions within landscapes seen from afar, these objects stand out like the ruins of monumental architecture. The absence of life as well as the luminous atmosphere of the work create a tension between apocalyptic feeling and nostalgia, between precious object and waste, between idealized nature and the indelible presence of human traces. These vestiges of the Anthropocene are deployed within an interactive installation in collaboration with Guillaume Arseneault, and a soundtrack composed by Roger Tellier-Craig. This is the single-channel version of the project.
Making use of a dizzying array of anti-gay protest footage captured and posted on the internet, Mead’s protagonist bears witness to the fractures, shifts and resistances that have brought us to this time in LGBTQ history.
Two female bunnies living across the world from each other fall madly in love, travel to the ends of the earth, then excitedly adopt 8 chicken eggs to raise a family.
A dog and his owner are strolling in the park when the latter whips out his phone and begins texting. Desperate for attention, the quick-thinking pup uses all means available to steer his beloved owner’s mind back out of the digital world.
Tess is ten years old--old enough to join her mother, Sue, for a summer's fishing in the northern waters off Vancouver Island on their boat the Henry Bay. However Tess is reluctant to go: she fears the stormy waters and would rather stay at home for the summer with her best friend, Candice. Tess does go, and with her goes Maa-mou the cat, a parting gift from Candice, as her lively companion. Together they rise to the challenges of life on a fishing boat, and thrill in the summer's unexpected pleasures.
The sound of a heartbeat pumps life into Linear Dreams, a scratch animation film that moves from the simple lines of the unconscious to representational realism.
A psychedelic animated short celebrating Canada’s bicentennial.
We illustrated "En roulant ma boule" using white cut-outs on a black background and "À la claire fontaine" with charcoals and pastels. We represent the water of the fountain using a frosted glass plate.
A female voice whispers poetry among animated chaos.
A Cartoon by Dan Collins
Five popular songs with animated backgrounds, sung by the Four Gentlemen Quartet: I Got a Robe, Men of the Soil, Frère Jacques, Oh, No John, No, and Give Yourself a Pat on the Back.
In the world of the Ruins of Equinox, time stands still. But when the stars stop swirling and the snow stops falling, nature comes back to life and nameless creatures emerge from small brick houses where they patiently awaited the return of the sun.
A mink walks into a fur store. Fantastic Mr. Fox meets The Shining in this stop-motion cautionary tale of what happens when we don’t think enough about what we buy. Inspired by found sound of two dogs growling, proudly animal-friendly, and produced as part of the 10th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.
Everyone needs to reach Carrot, but he doesn't seem to carrot all.
They say it's your birthday ... and there's no one better than the Beat Bugs to serenade you with a festive Beatles tune!