Genres: Animation

  • Bear Girl: Dog Boy

    Animal folklore is portrayed through cut-out animation in order to paint the complexities of surviving as a sexual being in the Twenty First Century.

  • Dress Code

    A humorous look at the stick-girl on the sign of a ladies’ bathroom door.

  • I Can’t Go Home

    A western Canadian cult favorite, this film introduces the Screaming Banana in a testosterone-filled animated film about confusion, escapism, and directionless rage.

  • Réveille (Wake Up)

    This simple and engaging animated film tells of an event which changed the course of French history in North America: the deportation of the Acadians, or “neutralist French,” from Nova Scotia by the English and Americans. The French Canadians are burned out of their homes, displaced to Louisiana. The image of soldiers/oppressors transformed into children’s toy soldiers has been called one of the most quietly powerful moments in animation history. The anger and poinancy of “Reveille” is enhanced by a haunting Acadian folk song.

  • Head Stick ‘em

    One morning, Tallulah Bighead discovers she’s out of Head Stick ’em, the sticky goo that holds her watermelon head on her tiny neck. Helped by her oddball cats, Tallulah struggles to keep her head from falling off and getting into mischief.

  • Ger Film

    “Ger Film” reflects the philosophical attitude a 20-year-old exhausted student has towards Art, Time, and looking at pretty pictures.

  • grotesque

    A devil makes a violent attempt to change himself into a heavenly creature. His evil process backfires when he is confronted with the creatures from within.

  • BRU HA HA!

    “BRU HA HA!” An overexcited and noisy response. A Commotion. A hubbub or an uproar. “BRU HA HA!” A short hand-scratched film by Steven Woloshen! A film about relationships of the human kind. Homage to painter Joan Miro.

  • Travelling Eye of the Blue Cat, The

    “The Travelling Eye of the Blue Cat” is a 16-minute, 35mm photo-collage animation . Using a surreal fairytale style, the film combines music and animation to tell the story of a girl awoken one morning by a mysterious seagull, which crashes against her bedroom window. Following the bird into an abandoned garden, the girl discovers the edge of the world. Perched on this edge is a single tree bearing a tangy red fruit, guarded by raucous birds. When the girl scares off the birds, and takes a bite of the fruit, she catapults herself into a startling, violent and extended…

  • Partisan

    “Partisan” is a dialogue-free stop-motion animation that explores the problems inherent in a partisan political system via a cast of characters created out of small scale found objects. A look at the challenges of having one’s voice heard from outside a political party, as well as the muzzling of the individual which takes place from within one.