Bless You
A man takes the subway. Inside his brain, a countdown clock hits zero and a little person prepares for lift-off. The man sneezes.
Canadian Shorts 1
90 minutes
A short film salute to Canadian animation.
This Canuck sampler features a golden oldie from Evelyn Lambart, an animator largely ignored until recent years. From there, we go on a journey through all areas of Canada to showcase stories about sex (The Clitoris), indigenous experiences (Snip), dead dads, sneezing, childbirth, satirical fairy tales, and a couple of troubled pigeons.
Programme curated by Chris Robinson.
This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2023
Showing in this program
Freak Heat Waves – Toxic Talk Show
Music video for Canadian trio Freak Heat Waves.
My Dead Dad’s Porno Tapes
Filmmaker Charlie Tyrell seeks to better understand his emotionally distant late-father through the personal belongings he left behind... including a stack of VHS dirty movies. Narrated by David Wain.
O Canada
This very short stereoscopic film by Evelyn Lambart uses drawings to suggest movement across Canada’s ever-changing countryside.
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Saint-Louis Square
Two Pigeons in the park.
Sleeping Betty
In this animated short, Sleeping Betty is stuck in bed, victim to a strange bout of narcolepsy. The King calls on his subjects to rescue her and they all respond to the call: Uncle Henry VIII, Aunt Victoria, an oddly emotional alien, a funky witch and a handsome prince. But will a kiss really be enough to wake the sleeping princess? The film, drawn in ink, is a classic example of the anachronistic and playful world of Claude Cloutier.
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Snip
SNIP cuts up colonial Canadian histories by telling a story of survival amidst the country's genocide of Indigenous children. Annie and Gordon travel back in time to save Charlie and Niska, trapped in a nightmare reality designed to eradicate their culture.
The Clitoris
Women are lucky, they get to have the only organ in the human body dedicated exclusively for pleasure: the clitoris! In this humorous and instructive animated documentary, discover its unrecognized anatomy and its unknown herstory.
The Collagist
This is an animated recreation of a collagist at work. It was created using paper puppets and cut-outs.
The Curse of the Voodoo Child
Sex, birth, fire and fingerprints. A passion play and the events of conception result in mayhem.
Two Weeks – Two Minutes
Two Weeks - Two Minutes is a sort of film-book, exploring the double page format and the notion of time in both media. During her two-week residency at the Center for Book and Paper Arts in Chicago, Judith Poirier printed simultaneously on paper and 35mm clear film stock using letterpress. Edited as two vertical screens side by side, the film mimics the format of a book and suggests a different reading experience.
Wild Life
This Oscar®-nominated animated short tells the story of a dapper young remittance man who is sent from England to Alberta to attempt ranching in 1909. However, his affection for badminton, bird watching and liquor leaves him little time for wrangling cattle. It soon becomes clear that nothing in his refined upbringing has prepared him for the harsh conditions of the New World. A film about the beauty of the prairie, the pangs of homesickness and the folly of living dangerously out of context.
