Genres: Animation

  • (ab) NORMAL

    “In ‘(ab)NORMAL’ the relationship spectrum, from paranoid avoidance to smothering and overwhelming attention, is traced through four pixilated sketches.” – Toronto International Film Festival

  • Portrait of Lydia

    The emotional life of a young art student is expressed in Freudian terms through a succession of images and symbols, constantly combining themselves into famous paintings and sculptures. A barrage of images that tell different stories to different viewers.

  • Pretending We Were Indians

    “This short animated film represents the recollections of a woman whose native ancestry was obscured by the social mores of the recent past. Tracing fragments of information as she walks, the woman speculates on what really happened to her ancestors and herself.” – Frances Leeming

  • Pursuit / Flight

    Animator Marilyn Cherenko continues her exploration of the poetic and spiritual qualities of life. The most lyrical of her films, “Pursuit/Flight” explores a woman’s fascination with a bird and the consequences of trying to “capture” freedom.

  • Ranky Tanky

    An animated film using cut-outs and a children’s song.

  • Reality Check

    Using cutout pictures from magazines, animated to a harmonica soundtrack, the audience is asked to look around and figure out what is important to us. Perhaps it is not “the automobile and some of the other consumer products that we seem to dote on” (Grand Rapids Press).

  • Rock Video

    Poking a little fun at “rock video,” this film uses real rocks that are resilient and amusing.

  • Rose, The

    An experiment in film collage made without the use of a camera. It utilizes food dye and handscratched animation directly on the film surface, intercut with live action found footage starring Hayley Mills. Hacked-up footage from an amateur monster movie is parallel-cut throughout, creating the appearance of a narrative.

  • Runaway

    A cartoon image of dogs rushing across the screen, then reversing their direction, is looped over and over, to the accompaniment of a sprightly tune played on an organ. The footage is seen on television, then as film, then back on TV, deteriorating and recovering clarity as the repetitions roll on. “Lawder achieves the perfection of all his techniques… in which he uses a few seconds of cartoon dogs chasing a fox. By stop-motion reverse printing and video scanning and other techniques, he creates a totally new and different visual reality that is no longer a silly funny cartoon.” –…

  • Sand

    “Sandpaintings” combines cutout, computer animation and live-action in an exploration of the meanings of symbols in our culture. In the film we see two figures (modelled after characters from Navajo sandpaintings) as they take a journey through an artist’s space, searching for their own meaningful symbols.