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Writing with light on film in sign language and dance, William Blake's famous poem is interpreted.

Silly, outrageous and truly queer, this freaky comic book comes to life introducing the world to Nancy Boy, a spandex wearing superhero and his campy battles against his Eurotrash enemies.

In 1962 Ernesto De Martino travelled to the South of Italy for his ethnographic research and shot "La Taranta". A study around women who were poisoned by a Trantula bite while harvesting in the fields. The remedy against the deadly poison was a folk dance called Taranta. The women danced the poison out of their bodies with the help of local musicians and priests. Studies around this phenomenon have highlighted that, in the majority of cases, these women were suffering severe mental illness and hysteria due to sexual abuse and poverty. In present-day Italy a similar dynamic has resurfaced, uncovering the stories of groups of immigrant women (mostly from Romania) who were victims of agricultural and sexual exploitation in Ragusa, Sicly. I reapprorpiated the 1962 archival footage to propose a different angle of the story surrounding these women. Not from the point of view of a man who has undertaken to observe them, but from the point of view of a woman from the South of Italy. (FF)

Video loop created for The Wrong, Digital Biennale.

The small recording device named REC lives all alone in an abandoned attic when a bird appears at the window. REC is really excited and wants to talk to it. But when the bird hears REC’s “voice” it flies away in terror. Now REC tries everything to record the bird’s beautiful song. Time is running out, because its battery will soon be exhausted.

Women emerge from the shadows and together, walk towards a light. Guided by instinct, they will face and transcend their own limits.

In the evening, the murmur of appliances and the buzz of a fly are the sounds filling the room.

A couple of astronauts make a stop on a moon during their journey to use the bathroom.

This short ecological fable is a tribute to the Arctic ecosystem and its people who are seriously injured by global warming.

A group of old-time favourite sing-along songs is presented. Included are Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet and The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze.

Another example of Detheux’s enchanting work, this year deepened by some outstanding live performance experiences.

Absences and translations motivate this experimental animation in an exploration of the methods and materials of reproduction and inscription. The inquiry is set within a framework of practical and critical human relationships with other-than-human-species elucidated by the theorist Donna Haraway.

Nature unleashes its anger (in demon-bear form) on an unsuspecting city.

Embracing the stunning music of Xavier Díaz-Latorre, Detheux delivers in a densely packed vertical forest of pure textural imagery.

A drop of water meets a drop of oil unleashing the kind of morphing choreography that only animation can bring to life.

When a mysterious box drops from the sky, a calm world is turned upside down. The residents of this world flow rapidly through the seasons, forced to embrace a flurry of movement. An animated celebration of the wild power of the imagination and the silver screen, The Devil's Due is a beautiful cacophony and a stunning factory of images.

Lloyd returns once again in this third animation to wreak even more havoc on himself. Includes teeth pulling, shooting himself in a cannon, stepping on nails and more.

An experimental animated short film that traces a quiet longing to fly, connect, and belong. Guided and woven by wind and colour, it drifts through an enchanting dreamscape shaped by imagination and interconnection.

PomBe, the lonely pumpkin kid, yearns to join the fun and treats of Halloween festivities and befriend three children in the neighborhood. He imitates their actions in hopes of being included, unaware that genuine friendship awaits him elsewhere.

Narrated by a father, this is the story of a family oscillating between joy and fear at the news of a pregnancy, having already experienced two perinatal losses.

A kid builds.

A woman wraps herself up in a large green mountain.

A lively sing-song in which a male quartet gives rousing performances of Billy Boy, What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor, and Marching through Georgia.

Nouilles / Noodles is a collection of 10 short animation films created by Julie Doucet and Anne-F Jacques. Writing, images and animation were done by Doucet, Jacques created the sound. The films are low-fi, either abstract or composed of words.

Experimental short film.

A Keaton-like hero tries to rescue a young maiden imprisoned by an evil character.

Coloratura is cartoon based on the minimal style of the UPA animation, combining art, animation and jazz to create a symphony as the main character bumps into different musical instruments.

A thief robs the home of a suspicious owner.

Is film about a promise I made my son at his birth. He was born at the end of the year 2006 when negatives of family snapshots and precious moments are rare. I promised him that he would grow up with negatives as records of our lives.

In prehistoric times, a Father and Son Cave-men have a confrontation on who's "is the best way to do things". Soon enough they will realize that each one knows things the other one does not. This is a story about generations and family bonds.

It's ok to ask for help.

A single gal venturing into a bar finds a groove all on her own.

Tired of being talked at by men, a woman takes a sensual trip with unusual friends.

A visual reinterpretation of dance and animated found footage.

The landscape in Vision Point seems to dance with an almost dizzying rhythm against an infinitely receding horizon and our relentless forward movement.

Two boys ready for action head down to the Calgary Stampede, a cornucopia of rides, food and girls. “When I see the Stampede grounds through the spinning arms of the Ferris Wheel, flashing like the frames in a film, I think ‘This is my fountainhead'.”

Experiments with 8mm home movie footage of the filmmaker to explore how familial roles are represented in the space of the home movie.

Explores the decay of memory and the filmstrip using super 8mm footage taken by the filmmake'’s father.

A stop-motion animated/mixed-media tapestry of deathbed dreams, ghost stories, and metaphysical musings, framed within the boxing match of a life. Fifteen years in the making, it’s a surreal blend of animation and live-action, exploring layers of a subconscious landscape where lost souls wander through luminous textures of memory, mystery, and wonder.

Mechanical and organic loops morph into each other in an experimental exploration of saturation and breath as a never-ending quest of presence.

From the beginnings of time, in times of crisis and when nothing else is on offer, there has always been ChickenFish to depend on.

Chance is key to Todd Fraser's "Ark", a work of playful process in which old vacation footage of a replica of Noah's diluvial vessel was re-photographed on a temperamental optical printer, then processed in red wine and holy water, with phantasmic results.

By animating three decades of LIFE Magazine, "The Orientation Express" humorously guides us through the sexism of North American media. Hosts such as The Quaker Oats Man, Colonel Sanders, and The Kool Aid Jug explore "the feminine mystique." This film highlights how attitudes towards women have changed and works to eliminate stereotypes which still persist today.

Meredith is a rambunctious islander who rather go fishing than anything else. Especially rather than being stuck practicing piano indoors! Using her wit and a little help from Finny the dog, she escapes her dads vigilance for a day of fun by the shore. But after she gets involved in a fishing accident, Meredith and her dad learn how listening to each other may be the key to rebuilding their trust in each other.

A rotoscope and found footage film exploring queer upbringing and unintentional homoeroticism.

A close up look at director Lindsay McIntyre's great-grandmother’s amauti. But what is between what you can and cannot see?

The film explores an intersection of species; insect flight patterns and modes of industrial travel merge as collective rituals in a fever dream.