Canadian Shorts 1
90 min. | Dialogue Language: English
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.
OIAF Trailer 2017
Trailer for OIAF 2017 made by Peter Millard.
O Canada
This very short patriotic and stereoscopic film by Evelyn Lambart uses drawings to suggest movement across Canada's ever-changing countryside. With the graceful national anthem on the soundtrack, O Canada even makes foreigners feel proud of Canada.
The Curse of the Voodoo Child
Experimental filmmaker Steven Woloshen envisions a cycle of sex, birth, fire and childhood via direct animation. Woloshen's latest film, Perf Dance, is shown in the 'Poetry in Motion' programme.
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Snip
SNIP explores a dark aspact of Canadian history, cutting up colonial histories by telling a story of survival amidst the country's genocide of indigenous children. Party girl Annie and Gordon, a homeless man, travel back in time to save two children who are trapped in nightmarish reality designed to eradicate their culture.
Freak Heat Waves - Toxic Talk Show
A music video for a song by the Canadian trio Freak Heat Waves that is essentially a psychedelic acid trip.
Wild Life
Amanda Forbis & Wendy Tilby's Oscar-nominated short tells the story of a dapper young remittance man who is sent from England to Alberta to attempt ranching in 1909. 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. The duo's latest film The Flying Sailor - also Oscar-nominated - is shown in Shorts 4: Flee(ting).
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.
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 history lesson and educative animated anatomy class, you can discover how the organ has been misrepresented in the past and why Sigmund Freud is the Number One enemy of the clitoris.
My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes
Filmmaker Charlie Tyrell seeks to finally understand his emotionally distant late-father through the personal belonging he left behind. Including a pile of VHS porn movies. A heartbreaking, yet redemptive, story about trying to be a better parent.
The Collagist
Using paper puppets and cut-outs, Amy Lockhart made a recreation of a collagist at work. It definitely reminds us of how fun and aesthetically pleasing collaging is.
Bless You
That is one mighty sneeze! In his distinctive style, David Barlow-Krelina animates a man taking the subway. Inside the man's brain, a countdown clock hits zero and a little person prepares for lift-off. Sneeeeeeze!
Sleeping Betty
A humorous Sleeping Beauty adaptation, Claude Cloutier's award-winning short film Sleeping Betty is all about rescuing the princess who falls victim to a strange bout of narcolepsy. While strange-looking subjects are standing besides the princess's bed, a handsome prince is called upon. Will his kiss wake the sleeping girl? This short, drawn in ink, breathes the anachronistic and playful world-building of its creator.
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Saint-Louis Square
What a lovely summer day in Montreal ... Two gentlemanly pigeons sit next to the fountain at Saint-Louis Square, playing checkers enjoying the weather. Little do they know the dangers that lurk.
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