Genres: Animation

  • Occupant, The

    “The further away you go, the closer to home you get… It is true by way of geography…” Now that she has traveled land and sea, little Romny is about to meet the 360th degree of her trajectory. She reflects upon her journey and faces her duty to carry on.

  • thrU

    This life is passing… Memories soon to fade among the final synapses of a fleeting mind. “thrU” represents the lifecycle of an individual’s unconscious reflections, memories and thoughts. Created through the integration of stop-motion, live action and cameraless filmmaking, “thrU” continues to explore the mixed medium approach to filmmaking that reveals the many layers of a world yet unseen.

  • Secret Love

    A series of line drawings of a girl are inter-cut with black-and-white Japanese-inspired landscapes and textbook diagrams of electromagnetic waveforms, over which are animated organic materials such as star anise, lavender, poppy seeds, and cranberries. Created for the song by Flotilla.

  • toybox

    “Like many of Wrik Mead’s previous films, ‘toybox’ combines creepiness and playfulness in a series of animations that manipulate the most misused toy of all – the penis. Stripped of eros and emotion, Mead’s scenarios of sex-gone-mad play with the absurd qualities of an appendage and a desire that has a mind of its own, and a drive so strong that it leads to self-destruction. Wrik Mead’s animated film plays with his own box of experimental toys, combining all of this talented filmmaker’s previous techniques – pixilation, claymation, stop-motion and cut-outs – in a series of video shorts tied together…

  • Dead Boyfriends

    Fire! Blood! Puppet death! Follow the fate of foolish Coyote as he falls for vampy Pandora, a cursed temptress with a taste for dodgy circus performers. Coyote gets drawn deeper into Pandora’s lair of love as each of her lovers dies mid-act. This dark comedic short by Cirque Du Soleil clown Mooky Cornish and performance artist Xstine P. Cook was shot in the beautiful foothills of southern Alberta, combining live-action & puppet sequences to tell Coyote’s sordid tale. A creepy puppet band from hell accompanies a gory feast of accidental deaths performed by stop-motion, shadow, marionette, and hand and rod…

  • Searching For Wallenberg

    Drawings and text bring to life a poem by Isa Milman. …..Someone named Vera is looking for Raoul Wallenberg; he was last seen in a Soviet prison, scratching into the stone wall. Isa was born in a DP camp in Europe; she now lives in Victoria and has published a second volume of poems.

  • Are You Norma?

    “Are You Norma?” is an experimental animation exploring fashion restrictions placed on the female body.

  • Firefly, A

    Based on a poem by Souvankham Thammavongsa, “A Firefly” plays with words, letters and optical sound. Produced for LIFT Poetry Projections 2007.

  • 10th Avatar

    Television’s influence is so great that it has left us completely mesmerized and has become our new form of worship. Our faith in the divine power has been challenged several times, through the ages. According to Hindu mythology an avatar appeared who relieved man’s distress and re-established the belief in God and the avatar. Nine incarnations of God or avatars have appeared thus far and the 10th avatar appeared with the fusion of mass media and formal worship. This is the story about the challenge divine worship faced as cable TV encroached our “idle” time.

  • Boy’s Mouth, A

    The power of one boy’s speech.