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A father’s gift makes his transgendered child feel loved. “There was such a lifetime of words that I wanted to say to my dad. Instead I just kept saying ‘Thank you’.”

A psycho-drama that mixes live action, pixilation and stop-motion. It follows a man as he falls from one state of grief to another. He only finds solice when he finally accepts his loss.

Totally tropical apocalypse.

An animation film depicting the life of a certain Nina Polanski, who could be any woman. She marries amidst much fanfare and photo-snapping, and settles into a domestic routine of cooking, washing dishes, ironing, and babies. Eventually she becomes the very machines she uses every day, until one day she walks into the woods and takes back her old self.

"Little Robot Stories" is an animated short film about ROE, a small robot stuck in a rut.

YGGDRASLL,(ig-dra-sil), The World Tree has always been, will be, and is. In this tour, its very roots will show us the nine worlds of old and, perhaps, a new mythology for the modern world. But travelers beware: traversing the nine worlds is not for the weak of heart or mind.

“High Tail” is a narrative story about a dog who has had enough of living with his owners and, in a burst of spontaneity, decides to move out and start his life in the big city. However, his green optimism is quickly crushed as he realizes the big city and adult life aren’t quite living up to his expectations.

A film by Zahid Jiwa.

Gaby invites her inner circle into her living room. Trying to capture her growing awareness of how others’ gaze shapes her, she puts herself in front of the camera. A dialogue emerges. Which version of her is the most authentic?

a memorable and initiatory sunday "family" dinner

Super Mr. Woods is a surreal animated short that blurs the line between reverence and ridiculousness, offering a glimpse into an absurd world spiralling into consumer chaos. A mystic forest creature becomes a brand, a god, a myth, who serves as a mirror for our own consumer-driven culture.

Created from watercolours, fluid acrylic paintings, and digital imagery – features local fish, birds, and animals traversing a dreamlike night-time landscape in the Yukon.

This film brings a Yiddish folk song to life, as the animated journey of a young bride and groom from Eastern Europe to North America is set to rollicking klezmer music. Fleeing the threat of war, the couple arrive in Canada, establish a new life together and hand down their traditions to the generations that follow. Produced, directed and animated by Arnie Lipsey.

The protagonist is forced to confront his depression and isolation as the contents of his life are mysteriously pulled from his apartment, during a TV, game show.

The story of how one of Toronto's first lesbian bars became an integral part of Toronto's early Chinatown community.

The First Political Speech is inspired by words, charismatic hypnotic and humorous, but ultimately meaningless. The animation shows a crowd of technological “robotniks”, enhanced by a speaker seen only through the motion of its shadow. The robotniks, surrounded by hazy images of past, current and future world leaders only through the motion of its shadow. The robotniks, surrounded by hazy images of past, current and future world leaders from many cultures, respond with applause, as serfs to empty words. The words of inspiration used in the animation are from a poem of the same title written by Canadian author, Eli Mandel.

“Clutter” is a 2D stop-motion animation, utilizing paper cut out, wool, and pieces of garbage. Thematically it touches on hoarding and consumerism.

A film by Zahid Jiwa.

The Hundred Videos is a project undertaken by prolific video artist Steve Reinke, including 100 video works made from 1989-1996. Discussing death, sex, the body, philosophy, and contemporary art, The Hundred Videos defines a unique style of video-essay for the end of the 20th Century. This volume contains videos 55-78: Symposium, Jin's Dream, Ghost Production, Minnesota Inventory, Re-enactment of a Performance, Three Examples, Sparky, Black Heart, Box, The End of My Death, Muriel, Attempt to sing, Assplay, Love Among Corpses, Harvey K., Dr. Asselbergs, Corey, My Fear, Dumbo Climax, Apology, How to Build an Igloo, Microscope, Amoeba, and Treehouse.

Our trans/2spirit/Intersex hero Alick gets bashed in school, Kay shows our hero the best revenge

Mo is an adult with autism spectrum disorder who spends a lot of time in their brain. Today, a hole started following them.

A beautiful ode to a simple donkey that gave his all – his ALL – for the sake of the children.

An animated allegory demonstrating the need to integrate the disabled into general society.

Development in long-range travel and the growing importance of the Arctic and Antarctic regions make it necessary to understand how maps may be misleading. Experiments with a grapefruit illustrate the difficulty of presenting a true picture of the world on a flat surface and it is concluded that the globe is the most accurate way of representing the earth.

In this short abstract-impressionist film the animation and music were made simultaneously in an organic process of symbiotic creativity. Filmmaker Iriz Pääbo tells the highly subjective story of a complete hockey game using a new cinematic vocabulary she calls "animbits." Pääbo readily admits she is not the biggest fan of Canada's national game, so the great, though highly underappreciated NHL stalwart of the '60s and '70s, Eric Nesterenko, was her hockey muse in this artistic journey. A lyrical and wonderfully unorthodox interpretation of hockey.

A shy person, frightened at social settings, makes several attempts to communicate and then succeeds in a bizarre and unusual way. Deliberately focusing on the one who rarely gets much attention and recognition; the theory is that inside every introvert there is an extrovert and vice versa, and that there are myriad ways of expressing human experience, not always through conventional channels.

Masculine tropes are undone to form a relationship between male sexuality and the human death drive. The body, violence and humour are positioned in the larger context of nothingness and somethingness, bridging a tension between externalized anxieties and the terrors of nature.

Filmmaker Moïa Jobin-Paré immerses viewers in a sensory exploration of the nature of the gesture in an experimental work that brings together photography, scratching, and a soundtrack composed from original recordings.

The likeness of an offspring to its parents, whatever the species, has been traced to a unique molecule that controls the production of proteins and transmits characteristics. This genetic material, dioxyribonucleic acid, or DNA--the hereditary material of life--is described and illustrated in this film by colour animation. Mutations are also discussed.

Rudy the horse uses his extendable telescope to see far beyond the naked eye and into distant wartorn lands.

The Moon Goddess falls in love with a human farmer. Even though they’re a world apart, she longs to meet her and uses her powers to bring them both together.

It's a cold day in Charlottetown and an old lady is feeling the blahs. Even the cat looks bored. As she figures out what day of the week it is, she realizes it's bath day. So, off she goes down the hall of the boarding house to the communal bathroom. Once in the tub, she is transported into the mythical dreamland of reverie and the exotic. At the end she is interrupted, someone is clamouring to get in. It matters not, the old gal has been rejuvenated and with that extra spring in her dance back to her room, she proves that a bath is all you need to refresh your psyche.

A stunning virtuoso turn from these two partners in life and art. A home movie where the library musings and theory shuffles are re-rooted in domestic space, in relationship. The tape insists that artmaking, and even the utopias it conjures, cannot be separated from the way we love, eat, or wash the dishes. It celebrates the hand-made, the make-shift, the provisional (no more monuments! unless they’re made of cardboard and felt and wool), and everywhere there is ingenious invention and a generous good humour, particularly when the artists don flesh suits and hoist a giant-sized sharpie to underline their fave utopia reading bits from the oversized texts that surround them.

A BAFTA award nominated feature taking a light-hearted look at a sleepy Inuit hunter, Kumak. An Inuit legend about a hunter who is too sleepy to hunt, told with puppets. Despite all efforts to change him he remains sleepy until the day when, following a great adventure, he attains success as a hunter. But then he foolishly tells the secret of his success to his nagging wife.

A gentle warning from the post-human, non-transcendent sentinel of the threshold.

Arising from the earth, a body discovers its nakedness. A suit of armour becomes a metaphor for the trappings of identity. Pixilated to produce the effect of a human marionette, accompanied by a good-natured verse.

In the animated short My Obscure Object of Desire, the heart will go to any lengths to become the object of its love's desire. So it woos, coos and even "awoos." But in the end not even the heart can always get what it wants.

A baby girl stumbles across a new friend, a teddy bear. Like a dream, we are transported through moments in their relationship begins to run, play, and learn about the world until it’s time to put childish things away.

In a dark movie theater, a young boy’s anxiety swells as he debates making the first move—until a small act of courage speaks louder than words.

This tribute to Bria Miller’s beloved Nan, Marion Miller, explores childhood, comfort, responsibility, nostalgia, and climate concerns. It was made with mentorship from animator Becka Marker and inspired by the late animator Helen Hill for the 2022 Halifax Animation Festival.

In "Self-Portrait", Federica Foglia (re)constructs her dislocated immigrant identity through the home movies of others, enacting a search for the self and creating a work of striking filmic autopoiesis.

Fear meets gay desire against an audio background of sitcom homophobia and jarring personal testimonies. Textured layers of figures, rotoscoped and real, move in and out of difficult scenarios, resolving into knowing acceptance.

Zig zag pictures dance to zig zag sounds; both sound and picture drawn onto 35mm film.

Shor experimental animation by Arash Akhgari

Looking for a way out... On the other side of the daily grind of modern life... Is there still some message to be heard? Will we succeed or remain disconnected?

When the origami world of Foldara crumples and unfolds out of control, three unlikely friends must journey into a treacherous maze that shifts into strange realms to stop the mysterious force reshaping their world before it's too late, and finding their purpose along the way.

A nude cycling event is hounded by a right-wing picketer attempting to sabotage it.... Cartoon Slapstick Ensues! Inspired by the international event "World Naked Bike Ride"

A summer night in Montreal.

This animated portrayal of Canada's wartime economy uses simple symbols to present economic processes. The relationship of money, goods and prices is illustrated.

A film about growing up in the twilight of industrial Hamilton, Ontario. Sam & Franklin spend an endless, muggy summer exploring their industrial neighborhood. Electrical towers dot the beach and factories loom high above them as strange, hallucinatory experiences take hold.

This fable immerses us in the peaceful life of Oto and Skippy on their planet, which is then disrupted by a spaceship collision and cosmonaut Exo emerges. Cohabitation between them proves to be tricky.

After moving to Canada, Kaki is obsessed with finding an exotic species of pink dolphin that takes its habitat in Hong Kong. She starts a dolphin-sighting trip scam with her friend but only to realize what she longed for is more than just the dolphin. A piece to investigate the longing for home and its values.

Educates about substance abuse and the sexual dysfunctions it can create, in a humorous way. At first, alcohol and other drugs seem to improve sex for our animated characters, young Romeo and Juliet. Fear and guilt disappear. He feels more masculine; she feels more feminine. Sex and alcohol/drugs become inseparable. In this context, their relationship is not a healthy one and can only lead to physical and emotional difficulties.

A man is going insane and cannot remember his face or his other memories.

Made in residence at the Experimental TV Center, December 2010. Cut-out animation processed with a Paik-Abe Raster Scan Device, Jones Six Channel Colorizer/Mixer, and Ross Video Switcher.