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Shaping a memoir of my personal return, in the jasmine vines is an assertion that the amalgam that makes my complex identity belong, gifted by my grandfather and his story and honoured by the generations following his. Forming an imagery of complex memory, archive, story and imagination, this film is a learnt way to place my existence within a narrative. And so, I look for the scents they carry in the jasmine vines.
A toy arrives in a new home and discovers he's not the only one there.
A student’s assignment causes me to consider the misogyny in art and what my responsibility is as a teacher, an artist, and a man. Images for this video were found using an academic art history image database, with the key word "rape".
Raphaële Frigon tragically and magically cries diamonds through stop animation of over 600 photographs. Her tears begin to transform her angelic face into the realm of the grotesque. We invite you to witness her beautiful sadness.
Plays on traditional fairytales with a modern sensibility.
A reflection on the meaning of home and how it is represented through objects and superstition.
“The Soup” is a charming story about a robot farmer, our beloved protagonist, who embarks on a very special adventure. His mission? Make the perfect soup. But beyond the soup, this film has a deep and meaningful message that I want to convey.
What it is like to be small, brown with a big imagination and growing up on the Canadian prairies.
No one's safe from the old forgotten phones of the underground.
In a dark forest at night, Gab rides his bicycle and makes a strange encounter.
Our world is a beautiful garden of incredible colors, and it is understandable to anyone who can forget about what monsters can live here.
Taking the shape of a deep sea voyage, 'Les Fruits de la Mère' is an experimental animation exploring the challenges regarding climatic changes, the seafood overconsumption and the possible future of the human race in a aquatic environment.
Scribble is a non-narrative short film. Scribble brings together thoughts and images that have no connection between each other.
A cathartic and dynamic 6DOF trip into the mind of an artist in turmoil. In this immersive artwork with light interaction, viewers travel through different scenes and seasons that show both the soft and fiery sides of a fighter spirit.
Magia da Terra explores the specificity of place by revering the magical herbs, folk customs, animals, and other elements found throughout this area of the world
If there were a biblical parable of "the latte", this would be it. This animation, using cut-outs, creates a colourful and mythic world story of men with ties, from space, creating a land of coffee shops, golfcourses and condo's. All is wonderful in the consuming population until pestilence strikes all. It is the oracles and oracle sub-committees that are consulted until the prophet tells the people to cast off their ties. And they do, along with their golf clubs, coffee cups, etc. - and once again all is in harmony...
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.
Created in 2008 at the Banff Centre's Liminal Screen residency in Banff Alberta, Canada. Short film by Jeremy Bailey.
A magic realist film where a woman sits at a café table missing one shoe; a man obsessively eats a bowl of soup and a dog relentlessly wants to play fetch. It’s a whimsical meditation on human foibles and how we struggle to live our lives free from manipulation and control.
Using a variety of animation techniques, this short, non-linear work questions aspects of the dominant origination myth.
Back to school - A queer cartoon fantasy!
An animation project about a ghost conductor who takes care of all their passengers.
Inhabited by multiple bereavements due to a long journey with HIV/AIDS, characters parade in a perpetual winter. Different moving tableaux evoke possible deliverances.
A Tiger follows his dreams of becoming a pilot with past encouragement from his Mum- only she is not there anymore to see him fulfill his dreams.
A clown struggles to accept the inevitable demise of his balloon animals but gains a new perspective on life thanks to those around him.
A surreal animated documentary based on historical records, The Pioneers is a mesmerising rhythmic experience honouring the animal passengers aboard their 59 rocket test flights prior to the first human voyage to space. This film aims to remind us of the sacrifices, experiences and tragedies of these forgotten and overlooked pioneers. Directed by auteur Australian animator Simon Cottee and scored by renowned Canadian composer Kid Koala.
At the intersection between animation, ceramics, film, as well as printmaking, Honeydew, Darling is employing an interdisciplinary approach to explore the transient relationship between time and identity as it relates to queerness.
Les Terrains Vagues offers a window onto a time-stretched space, from which emanate the voices of five individuals. Revolving around their internal dialogues, the film takes the form of a broad conversation about the models and preconceived ideas that impact the way they experience their sexuality.
A character from a 1970s album cover is brought to colourful, psychedelic, life.
Alone in her bathroom, a crocheted woman ponders her life in comparison to the hairs that live on the floor.
Two male blow-up dolls become puppets in this short. Not only is one of the men out of air, but both of them are tragically out of synch with one another.
A surrealist, experimental stop-motion animation celebrating the solstice as witches summon UFOs to exchange natural gifts from the earth, featuring a rearranged 13th century polyphonic round in Middle English.
The stick figure girl on the ladies' room sign is mad and she's not gonna take it anymore.
At dawn, in a mismatched architectural megalopolis, we enter into the intimacy of three people: A tormented YOUNG WOMAN, a STREET MAN and an OLD LADY. We go through with them what we experience on a daily basis: Waking. Within this moment of solitude and small daily gestures, we discover the simple pleasures of awakening the senses that pushes them out of bed.
Days Like These is an animated piece that celebrates dance in the midst of a global pandemic. Performing alone, we watch a dancer whose image is constantly changing.
This film is about losing a loved one and the memories you cherish after they’re gone. It’s always the little moments that seem to matter the most.
In a noir world of dive bars and mad scientists, a desperate hit-man will take almost any job for a sweet taste of Orchid. But can an assassin afford a conscience? And can Orchid really mend a broken heart?
Whirlwind is a hand-drawn animation consisting of over 700 ink drawings, rendered during the early months of the global pandemic. The film’s visuals were elicited by unfolding events. The process of drawing this film, frame by frame, coincided with a unique sense of time and space that emerged during the pandemic. The unique flow of time experienced during the first half of 2020 provided a new type of lived experience—proper for reflection through hand-crafted animation.
A Cartoon by Dan Collins
an Animated Short Film about Waddles
A stop-motion folktale about a gourd that learns what it means to be human.
Trudy goes for one last bounce, with unexpected results.
Bored during a global pandemic, 10-year-old Pat struggles to entertain himself when suddenly an ad pops up on his tablet, offering him the "cure" to his problems: a free quarantine friend.
"The Main Event" is an experimental short with an original soundscape, seventh in our film cycle "Dream Storm." Found footage is hand processed and digitally collaged to arrive at a media work that focuses on a dream narrative and spectacle parade.
A surreal journey exploring parallels of the grieving subconscious and the depths of the ocean.
Rose the rabbit seeks her way home in this poetic story of reclamation, recovery, and reconciliation.
This hand-processed 16mm film reflects on botanical animism. It is a song written for night-crawlers, compost, and shadows, inspired by human flower-lust. Water, fire, earth and air are interwoven with the garden's creature crew. The work draws a parallel between the photographic alchemy of cinematic experiments and the photosynthetic processes of plants.
Two boys go out to see fireworks in the evening.
Ice Spider is a collaboration between Saimaiyu Akesuk (Cape Dorset, Nunavut) and Cheryl Rondeau (Toronto, Canada). Inspired by Akesuk’s iconic drawing entitled Red Spider (2014), this experimental short employs the technique of stop-motion animation while making reference to the actual behaviour of the Arctic Wolf Spider, a genus of arachnid common across the North. Climate change has resulted in larger populations and increased predatory tendencies of this carnivorous and cannibalistic spider. This sci-fi influenced short animates the growing discourse around the ecological, political and cultural future of Canada’s Arctic. Background imagery was shot on location in Cape Dorset, Nunavut.
Above the Bar is a queer coming of age story that takes place in a motel “above the bar.”
Wander is a film primarily experimenting with the effects of superimpositions to play with surreal sensations, as a poetic dialogue floats along the way. No incarnation of the subjects exists inside, only the two's voices hovering over the dynamics like extraterrestrial creatures drifting away from the Earth. The atmosphere is dangerous. And the fluid exhibition of sceneries spans from Asia to North America with chaotic velocity, which may relive a spiritual diaspora after fragmentary experiences here and there. In this visual space, the past is unrelentingly flooded away in the fading memory.
Two girls going through a break-up try to avoid bitter drama and embrace the sweetness of why they liked each other in the first place. Through stop-motion animation their hearts burst and candy tears fill the screen to perform a sad crazy dance.
A skillfully animated exploration of how to set personal boundaries.
As a couple of lesbians move from the city to their new home in the country, a pair of love birds follow them to their new home.