Genres: Animation

  • Der Fus Tort

    A 21st-century take on the tower of Babel story, this zany animated tale combines modern Yiddish storytelling with the hottest of new media. From angel’s foot cake to angels’ cheese cake, this delicious serving of new Yiddish film comes complete with a high fat, double, double ending. “Whimsical drawings and Yiddish humor animate this charming tale. ‘Der Fus Tort’ is a treat for all ages.” – Susan Alper, Director Montreal Jewish Film Festival Yiddish /w English subtitles

  • Slide

    Through a simple act of child’s play, a young boy confronts both his parents’ overwhelming protection and his own very real fears. “Slide” is an animated short film whose narrative centres around the metaphor of being handicapped. Even loving parents hand us crutches; what we do with them is up to us.

  • SIENA

    This short film was created especially for the Third International Short Film Festival of Siena in Italy, held in November, 1998. It was designed as an opening sequence to introduce the festival and was shown at the beginning of each of the ten in-competition screenings. The film begins with dream-like images of Siena at night. Through the combined rhythm of waving banners, galloping horses and distant voices, sound and image evolve into a world of cinema.

  • Academy Stripper

    Using a “found” piece of fifties strippy teasy dance as the basis for rotoscope, I drew/traced/colored the dance and added echoes of images from family footage and various and sundry odds/ends including birds elephants and of course the academy leader countdown number thingee that we will soon see no more of…and I used the original sax track off the original found piece with some blips and o-pops…

  • Rebuttal

    A brief history… At the Annecy International Animation Festival of 2005, a short abstract animation entitled, “Spiral” was presented in the opening night ceremony. The “unknown” abstract filmmaker, J.W.Murton, was credited with this work. “Spiral” was introduced at the opening ceremony as a rare abstract film made in the tradition of Walter Ruttman and Oscar Fleshenger. Sounds very good…. except… The real author of “Spiral” was none other than Bill Plympton. His real motive for making this film,-contempt – both for abstract films and filmmakers and the funding that goes with the territory. And now, it’s time for a Rebuttal!

  • Cave, The

    After my first experience in a dark cave, I remember brief glimpses of images that were imaginary and real. No duplicate film prints or video copies of “The Cave” exist. This hand-made 35mm silent original film is intended to change and evolve with each projection.

  • Shaving Shania (2004 Images Fest Trailer)

    This silent 35mm film can be installed and projected as a continuous loop or just as one single viewing. “Shaving Shania” was commissioned as a trailer for the Images Film and Video Festival in 2004. The word IMAGE is broken down into the phrase, “I AGE” and is laid over found footage of a 1960’s film idol in a state of “cinematic”ecstasy.

  • Spare Change

    a 3 minute cameraless animated film. telling of the myth of the phoenix using every day objects

  • Raw

    a 5 min cameraless animation film . fossil documents moving through time and space.

  • Can You Love Me?

    Adam Garnet Jones and Sarah Kolasky combine film, video, and experimental animation to create a painfully intimate documentary about Toronto artist Morgan Mavis. ‘Can You Love Me?’ is a seductive exploration of the artist’s narcissism and insatiable need for love. The film begins by describing a poster campaign, which was launched by Morgan Mavis as her thesis project for the Ontario College of Art and Design. She posted a self-portrait around the city of Toronto on every available surface, with text that read, “Can You Love Me?” and listed a phone number. In the photo, Morgan’s pierced tongue sticks out…