Ballpit

• Kyle Mowat
• Canada, 2012

Life forms struggle to assert and organize themselves within a hostile environment.

Death Van

• Michael Enzbrunner
• Canada, 2017
• 6 min.

The fictitious space-rock duo DEATH VAN tours through a miniature world inhabited by surreal creatures that are haunted and terrorized by a menacing and mischievous entity.

Dehors Novembre

• Patrick Bouchard
• Canada, 2005
• 6 min.

This animated short evokes the tragic death of Dédé Fortin, frontman, and vocalist of the Québécois band Les Colocs. To the soundtrack of “Dehors novembre,” one of the band’s songs, animator Patrick Bouchard weaves of dark tale of death and ruin, as they unfold in the dark of night, in November, the Month of the Dead. Not for children.

Erodium Thunk

• Winston Hacking
• Canada, 2018
• 2 min.

The film was made specifically for a group show in Vienna (curated by Clint Enns and Madi Piller) titled From A to Z, that reflects on Micheal Snow’s 1956 animated film of the same name, and his multiplicity of approaches which fluidly transition between media and form.
The piece is an endless barrage of hyperlinked cable television commercials. With equal doses of satire and nostalgia, the promised pleasures of late consumer capitalism are deconstructed through a contemporary form of détournement

Focus

• Alex Boya
• Canada, 2014

A 1-minute cart ride through the mental shopping mall of attention deficit disorder.

Girl in the Hallway

• Valerie Barnhart
• United States / Canada, 2019
• 10 min.

Why does 'Little Red Riding Hood' give Jamie nightmares? It's been 15 years, and the girl in the hallway haunts him still. This is a testament to locked doors. A lullaby sung by wolves with duct tape and polaroids. Not all girls make it out of the forest. Some stories children shouldn't hear.

Git Gob

• Philip Eddolls
• Canada, 2009

In this animated short from the Hothouse 5 series, two creatures wonder, What is a hole? They have different points of view. Their debate leads to an idea, an idea that changes the world. This is a story of practical magic.

House on Fire

• Emily Pelstring
• Canada, 2020
• 4 min.

Official music video for Plants and Animals' track, "House on Fire". A chaotic mess of household objects--a fork, a teapot, a chair, a ghost--filtered through a hypnotic, vintage vibe. The house is falling apart at the seams, leaking into the garden, the sea, the sky.

Jim Zipper

• Alexandre Roy
• Canada, 2018

Made using the technique of pinscreen animation, Jim Zipper is a musical exploration inspired by various pictorial movements of the first half of the 20th century.

Lipsett Diaries

• Théodore Ushev
• Canada, 2010
• 14 min.

This animated short by Theodore Ushev depicts the maelstrom of anguish that tormented Arthur Lipsett, a famed Canadian experimental filmmaker who died at the age of 49. His descent into depression and madness is explored through a series of images as well as sounds taken from Lipsett's own work.

My Grandmother Ironed the King’s Shirts

• Torill Kove
• Canada, 1999
• 10 min.

This Oscar®-nominated animated film comes from Oscar®-winning filmmaker Torill Kove (The Danish Poet). It's a tall tale about her grandmother's life in Oslo, Norway, during World War II. Sharp and whimsical, her story combines her grandmother's tales with historical events and fantasy, showing how a cherished anecdote can come to acquire a mythical status. King Harald of Norway said, "I love the irony of this short."

OIAF Trailer 2022

• Winston Hacking
• Canada, 2022

The Hat

• Michèle Cournoyer
• Canada, 1999
• 6 min.

A young woman works as an exotic dancer in a bar. She recalls an incident from her childhood in which she was physically abused by a male visitor. This inner journey brings back painful memories, including the obsessive image of a hat. Black-ink drawings, spare and rapidly executed, flow together in a succession of troubling and striking metamorphoses. The Hat is a tough, visceral experience. With naked honesty, animator Michèle Cournoyer invites the audience to share in the pain of a woman whose body is on display and whose soul is forever soiled. A film without words.

The Tourists

• Malcolm Sutherland
• Canada, 2007
• 2 min.

Another transient day at the beach...

We Drink Too Much

• Chris Lavis / Maciek Szczerbowski
• Canada, 2016

An unapologetic take on the vicious cycle of earning too little and consuming too much.

You Look Like Me

• Pierre Hébert / René Lussier
• Canada, 2014
• 5 min.

I passed you by, I only passed you by, on the street, in the subway,

or rather I saw you, I only saw you, on television, in the newspapers,

I read the story of your life, I saw photos of you,

I saw you passing by, only passing by,

but I could’nt forget your eyes, they said to me :

“Little brother, little sister, you look like me.”