Genres: Animation

  • Pustulations

    “Pustulations” is a short animated film using the painting-on-glass technique. It is about one woman’s compulsion to pick at her skin and the purulent, pustular world beneath it. Awards: National Film Board of Canada Award for Best Emerging Canadian Film or Video Maker, Images Festival of Independent Film and Video, Toronto, ON, 2004 Also available on FEM CRIT.

  • Term, The

    A lovely and spare animated film illustrating the poem, “The Term,” by William Carlos Williams. The film is an homage to the work of Williams and to the school of Imagist Poetry, which he founded and best exemplifies. The filmmaker chose this particular poem because of the power of the imagery, the constant metamorphosis, the musicality of the words and the gentle humanistic quality of the message. All these things lend themselves well to film: particularly to the style of animation she has developed. The animation is hand-drawn pencil on paper, fully animated twelve drawings per second. The drawings illustrate…

  • Thorn Picker, The

    A camera-less, hand-painted animation inspired by the Roman sculpture La Spinozza, which depicts a young woman removing a thorn from the sole of her foot.

  • Kill Road

    “Enduring a dysfunctional family requires stamina, wit and sharp survival instincts, as demonstrated in this anguished ode to family peculiarity. A pixilated tale of a girl whose off-kilter parents become lost in a mission to nurse a raccoon – an unfortunate road-kill victim.” – Images Festival, 2004 AWARDS: Images Prize for Best Canadian Media Artwork in the Festival, Images Festival of Independent Film and Video, Toronto, 2004

  • Two Eastern Hair Lines

    Sometimes, rifts between us are as wide as rivers, and sometimes, as small as hair lines. Using bleaching and painting techniques on found footage, “Two Eastern Hair Lines” explores communication, conflict and isolation. “West of the pass you will meet no more old friends.” – Tang Dynasty poem Awards: Jutra Nomination for Best Animation, 2004

  • Chain Reaction in Virtual Reality

    This short animated film is the filmmaker’s non -verbal gut (chain)-reaction to “life at the end of the 20th century.” In the film, fast-paced images and ideas, and a dense sound track, relentlessly keep hitting the viewer’s senses, yet allow the viewer to make his/her own interpretations as to the meanings behind the images. As in all of Amitay’s films, coloured sand and fine jewelry are the animator’s medium.

  • Hand Eye Coordination

    “Hand Eye Coordination” explores the manual manipulations upon the film body, examining the cinematic result of mechanical interventions. This film tells the story of its own making.

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    Using a piece of 1970’s porn film, nail polish and bleach, the filmmaker has created a new pornography, one in which the woman exists only as a hole – an empty, animated space.

  • If Anyone Should Happen to Get In My Way

    This animation was shot from hi-con coloured Lomo photographs of a girl in various animal states, licking her wounds. A meditation on female anger.

  • In Sin

    A classic tale of impossible love. An angel and a monster fall in love, but their union is prohibited because they are from different worlds. Created in 24P High-Definition video, “In Sin” is quite possibly the world’s first High-Def stop-motion animation.