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The maps shall adapt to Man's ambition.

A short animation piece about sex, consumption, body image, objectification and desperation. In the sex meat market, there is no face and no compassion.

A modern fairy tale of sorts. Presented as intriguing puppet animation with a sweeping sound scape, it conveys the universal story of how easy it is to become a prisoner of one’s own illusion.

In Quebec, as everywhere around the world, the Spring of 2020 was drastically changed by the Covid 19 pandemic. I decided to make the most of this extraordinary period by putting the disruption caused to the season of rebirth into images in a short animated film. Using my scanner to animate an assortment of flowers gathered from my neighbourhood and objects from my daily life allowed me to cast a distanced and light-hearted eye at this anxiety inducing global situation. The black, rectangular surface of the scanner is the sole backdrop of the film, like a representation of our confinement within four walls.”

The story of the forbidden friendship between Dam, the tip of mount Damavand in Iran and Hofit, an air force plane from Israel. Their unexpected encounter dares them to reimagine a friendship against all odds.

An exceptional portrayal of the world's creation, from a barren landscape to the emergence of the Woman and the Serpent, ending with Society as we know it. The film is technically unsurpassed in plasticine animation.

Through song and dance, traditional dancers tell stories with rhythmic movement and chants, body language perpetuating our culture and stories, I,v chosen to animate a recurring traditional song from my powwow, known as sneak up.

A little girl espies a wondrous pony under her window one charmed moonlit night. Is it all a dream? Flora is spirited back in time to an enchanted forest. Here, she witnesses the machinations of a wicked wizard who casts a spell on the pony. The courageous little girl eventually confronts the wizard and conquers the forces of evil that had been unleashed centuries before! Sure to delight young imaginations, The Long Enchantment is a spellbinding animated fairy tale, where "once upon a time" ends "happily ever after."

Made in memory of Canadian artist and filmmaker Joyce June Wieland, June is a hand-drawn stereoscopic animation by NFB animator, Munro Ferguson. It is like a three-dimensional abstract painting that moves. June is Munro's attempt to capture what it was like for him to know Joyce. Part 1, "Alzheimer's", is about the end of her life. Part 2, "Memory", is about what she was like during the height of her creative powers.

A classic Spaghetti Western-style cutout animation with a not-so-classic twist.

Billy explains how he sacrificed his life and learned to cope with the lack of acceptance he gains from his soulmate's family. Billy suffers from the lack of love he receives when meeting Lilly's family but will do anything just so that he's not known as the odd one out.

Visual and poetic exploration of the effects of power lines on raptors within surrounding ecosystems. Adapted to nest and hunt from points closest to the sky, the birds themselves are prey to contemporary hunger for electricity. As power lines cover the horizon where forests once sprouted, owls, hawks and herons have no choice but to risk their lives to survive.

A film by Zahid Jiwa.

A young child’s retelling of growing up in foster care, through the colourful animation of paper cut-out memories.

The quarantine brings difficulties in sexual satisfaction in and some confusing feelings around vegetables.

Small Town playfully explores a queer, mixed race person’s relationship to their identity and surroundings through delightful Claymation.

Messy lives. Messy relationship. Messy sock drawers. This short and sweet animation will show you how to tidy it all up in less than one minute.

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 79-100: The Boxers, Talk Show, The Hand, I have already, Little Monkeys, Stenor, New York Loves Me, Seventeen Descriptions, Children's Video Collective, Three Dreams, 24 Jokes, Video for Intellectuals, Falling, Notes on the Uncanny, Manifestations/Jouissance, Ants and Bees, Ghosts, Camouflage, Underwear, Candle, Story, and Why I've Decided to Become a Painter.

1917. Private Pépin vowed to write the beautiful Mademoiselle Pigeon a letter daily. He will soon have to use his imagination to keep his promise.

A bunny witch attempts to get her vegetable-themed broomstick to fly.

A collection of tapestries designed and sewn by the filmmaker illustrates the lyrics of a song about a young girl's hometown. Animation is created through a combination of sewing and cinematic techniques. The needlework, done in a naïve style, is particularly well suited to the bright colours and varied textures of the work. This lively film is designed to promote interest in the art of tapestry.

Three popular songs, with animated backgrounds, sung by the Four Gentlemen Quartet: All Through the Night, Row, Row, Row Your Boat, and Waltzing Matilda.

A Monster's Calling is a humorous animated film about the nature of personal anxieties, and body image. An "under-the-bed" monster wanders through a slumbering household, wreaking typical monster havoc. First a little girl, then an older brother, and finally the teenaged big sister. It's surprising, to both the monster and to us, what frightens each of them. A film without words.

As the Earth rotates slowly, various forces of nature, mechanical movements, and human trajectories occur simultaneously.

An animated film depicting the evolution of the City of Toronto from 1749 to 1978.

Madame Winger wants you to make a film about something you love. She shows you her favorite low budget filmmaking techniques, from cameraless animation to processing your own film in a bathtub. Filmed in 16 mm.

In a forest of corduroy and felt, Bonefeather and his beady-eyed Neighbor disrupt the peace of the morning with an obnoxious mating song.

The four big concepts of the instinct to living - Survive, Transform, Adapt, and Evolve - are seen through different chapters in the protagonist’s life, and other living creatures in relation as well.

Fire and Blood is an animated short taking place in an alternative version of the French Revolution where the prince Louis XVII take revenge on the revolutionaries by releasing the monstrous beast of Gévaudan in the street of Paris.

Visions of nature mediated through the windows of a travelling vehicle.

When the sun falls from its cradle, a little desert dweller must return it, pitting his determination against its heat.

Mutterseelenallein follows the story of a lone man scared to travel beyond the confines of his home. When the unthinkable happens he is forced to come to terms with his escape from reality and realize what is most important to him.

Trans love and kink find its rhythm in this “animated pop-poetic incantation for weirdo intimacy.”

An elementary school film on multiplication based on the theories of Professor Zoltan Dienes.

Ok silence was born of the desire to create a sensitive animation inspired by the codes of direct cinema. With this in mind, the artist carried her tape recorder around with her for six months, capturing the noises and conversations that form the soundtrack of her own life. In so doing, the film takes on the form of an autofiction, or even an experimental diary.

An artist’s hectic day-to-day life revolves around the telephone, straight out of the artist's drawing board. In less than five minutes, we've experienced a day jam-packed with little incidents.

Tempodégénérative is an exploration of odd sequences which want to express neurodegeneration. It is an abstract experimental short film. Tempo degenerative, as the title implies, is an experience that gradually gains in chaos while overlapping an overwhelming base structure from the start. I invite the audience to contemplate the fact that we are the sum total of our memories, from a place where the mind is not eternal nor spotless. Confusion, juxtaposition, disorientation, and loss of self. There are minimalist drawings being spun on a motorized zoetrope combined with a strobe as a way to refer to the confusion and disorientation those who suffer from neurodegenerative disease experience, which are gradually changed to more complex compositions relating to more personal memories. You’re on what feels like your last string, hoping things will eventually calm down. It's a nonstop flight or fight.

Haunted by an evil spirit that keeps him awake, a hunter discovers the secret power of dreamcatchers.

A dimwitted pigeon unknowingly incites the wrath of the Pope after pooping on his head.

A visual poem on the theme of depression. Poetry superimposed with hand processed 16mm film collected on the Film for Artists and Film Farm Residency. Footage includes found footage, and non-camera hand techniques including but not limited to tinting, toning, varnish, bleach and painting.

Everyone will recognize themselves in this tender-hearted boy who spins fantasies and succumbs to every snare of seduction. Stumbling over the successive rejections of his beloved—at turns a siren and an ocean-woman—and drawn in by the lure of her mirages, with every defeat he rebuilds his castle in the air and, in vain, plucks the petals of the daisy.

In The Mind as a Battlefield, a poignant animated documentary, David, a 45-year-old veteran, shares his inner struggle with his younger brother. A moving quest to find balance in the face of invisible wounds.

A short comedy, a parody of American features from the 90's or 2000's, in the shape of a storyboard. Jane leaves her family to live her life. She meets someone who turns her life upside down. Her life will change forever. Or not. Or maybe a little.

A stop-motion animated film depicting a cotton blower at work.

A short film about an early 19th century tailor going through the process of making a dress for themselves as a way of coming out to their family.

Mindgame was created with over 3000 drawings made between the years 1967 and 1998. These drawings were not created with animation in mind, instead each piece was intended to capture movement within a still frame. In 2024, with the help of the Quickdraw Animation Society, the natural patterns and progressive movements in these drawings were put into sequence and animated.

"Chaos is a Dancer II" is about relationships and about seeing the Planet Earth as one single organism. Nothing is destroyed, everything is transformed.

In the future human beings are abandoning planet earth. This animated short story captures the final journey of three animals who are left behind.

An elementary school film on multiplication based on the theories of Professor Zoltan Dienes.

Animates the surreal "biomorphs" created by celebrity zoologist Desmond Morris in his paintings. Morris wrote in The Secret Surrealist: "My greatest desire is to jump through the frame of one of my paintings, like Alice through the looking-glass, and disappear forever into my surreal world." A clip from Hybrid Vigour appeared in the BBC2 Personal Passions Series II - Episode One: Desmond Morris - The Surrealist, 1999. Zoologist Morris is author of The Naked Ape and The Human Zoo, host of many TV specials, art curator, and a world-class surrealist painter since the time of the original Surrealist group. Paintings were redrawn in Animator Pro and transformed, with permission from Morris, from reproductions in the book "The Secret Surrealist."

An exploration of an immigrant's childhood memories through a creature's interactions with her home.

A teenager lives under the shadow of his controlling mother in peripheral Israel. The story takes place in the limited space of the house, where the sensitive and introvert son takes care of his mother and her needs. Beneath their day to day survival, the film explores questions of marginality and poverty in a society searching for its identity.

On an island made of garbage, a plastic creature meet a fresh new born flower. A bird stole the flower and the creature start chasing it. Finally the island itself will save the flower.

A stop-motion meditation on the inevitability of death, dedicated in loving memory to Gravy, the Nebelung gremlin kitty.

In this short, animated film that explores the mysterious nature of dream, a woman and her sidekick cat find themselves moving from one strange room to another in pursuit of an elusive floating pushpin. On this journey between dreaming and wakefulness, the characters meet with the unexpected, the absurd and the oddly familiar, in imaginative mixed-media spaces created by eight contributing visual artists.