At the Quinte Hotel

• Bruce Alcock
• Canada, 2005
• 3 min.

A fluid, vibrant and kinetic riff on one of Al Purdy’s best-known poems, Bruce Alcock’s “At the Quinte
Hotel” recalls the experimental, interpretive work of Norman McLaren.
Using a celebrated CBC Radio recording of Purdy reading at the League of Canadian Poets in 1968, Bruce
Alcock animates “At the Quinte Hotel” with a variety of handmade and computer-assisted techniques—oil
paint on paper, charcoal drawings on paper, linoleum, bottle caps, wire, flowers, a neon sign, even an electric
kettle.
A poet waxes on about beer and flowers in a small-town basement tavern. He witnesses and joins a bar fight,
which he wins. Seizing the opportunity to recite to a captive crowd, he tries to profit from the emotional
effect of his poem...

Beautiful Like Elsewhere

• Élise Simard
• Canada, 2017
• 4 min.

In a quiet retirement home a few residents watch a late night film and a nurse enjoys a cigarette. Welcome to the end of time and the land of dreams.

Cattle Call

• Mike Maryniuk / Matthew Rankin
• Canada, 2008
• 3 min.

Cattle Call is a high-speed animated documentary about the art of livestock auctioneering. Structured around the mesmerizing talents of 2007 Man-Sask Auctioneer Champion, Tim Dowler, and using a variety of classic and avant-garde animation techniques (including stop-motion, cut-outs, open-exposures, hole-punching and rubbing lettraset directly on the celluloid) filmmakers Maryniuk and Rankin have tried to create images as dazzlingly abstract, absurd and adrenalizing as the incredible language of auctioneering itself. It is our hope that the film will induce near-bovine levels of dumbfoundedness in all those who gaze upon it.

e:e:e:e:e

• Brandon Blommaert
• Canada, 2015
• 2 min.

In this exploration of Synesthesia, a green monochrome monitor pulses, curves, and ultimately burns into wave­shaped chaos. Occurring as a series of five thirty­ second audio visual experiments, Blommaert’s evolving graphical abstraction literally plays with how we see sound gestures.

End of Recording

• Lukas Conway / Stefan Jaroszonek / Olivier Sommelet
• Canada, 2017
• 2 min.

Sometimes the truth is hard to handle, especially when you've dropped some LSD.

Finding Uranus

• Ivan Li
• Canada, 2019
• 6 min.

A Coming of Age Sci-Fi film about Lost and Found.

Four Faces of the Moon

• Amanda Strong
• Canada, 2016
• 12 min.

Fawn, a photographer, travels through time and meets her Michif, Cree and Anishinaabe ancestors. She is a witness to the many atrocities committed by the settler as she weaves through time and learns who she is.

Here and There

• Diane Obomsawin
• Canada, 2006
• 9 min.

In this animated short, filmmaker Diane Obomsawin shows how childhood can be a chaotic time, especially if you're bouncing back and forth between two continents.

With engaging candour and gentle humour, Obomsawin fleshes out an uncertain identity and takes control of her life. Using drawings on paper and digitized snippets of fabric, she creates a whimsical world of simple lines and pastel tones.

In the Shadow of the Pines

• Anne Koizumi
• Canada, 2020
• 7 min.

In the Shadow of the Pines is an animated short documentary about a difficult father-daughter
relationship. Drawing on childhood memories, Anne Koizumi, the filmmaker, explores her upbringing
with her Japanese immigrant dad, who was also the janitor at the elementary school she attended.
The film explores the idea of shame and how it can shape and define us while also concealing who we
can truly become.

OIAF Trailer 2020 Intro

• Emily Pelstring
• Canada, 2020

Ryan

• Chris Landreth
• Canada, 2004
• 13 min.

This Oscar®-winning animated short from Chris Landreth is based on the life of Ryan Larkin, a Canadian animator who produced some of the most influential animated films of his time. Ryan is living every artist's worst nightmare - succumbing to addiction, panhandling on the streets to make ends meet. Through computer-generated characters, Landreth interviews his friend to shed light on his downward spiral. Some strong language. Viewer discretion is advised.

Squame

• Nicolas Brault
• Canada, 2016
• 4 min.

Squame explores the body’s sensitive envelope, the skin. The ephemeral animated desquamations, created with the help of sugar casts, evoke fragile landscapes in a world at the edge of abstraction. Somewhere between archeological artifacts and macroscopic observations, the friable frontiers of these human bodies elude our gaze.