Genres: Animation

  • Scape-mates

    Dancers Emery Hermans and Sarah Shelton move in a mythic world created by using video synthesizers and computers to animate artwork.

  • Scissors

    An animated film using single-frame manipulation techniques to describe the imaginary life cycle of a pair of scissors, in a vaguely submarine backdrop of strange plants and ball-like creatures bounding around the landscape. Scissors like to eat these balls, but occasionally they form an aggregate monster that likes to eat scissors.

  • Short Story, A

    A humorous look at a young girl’s reaction when she discovers that her younger sister is suddenly taller than she is. Faced with the reality that she will be short for the rest of her life, she tries to adapt as best as she can. Being a short person living in a world geared to tall people is not easy. Eventually, she joins a group of short people whose aim is to unobtrusively scale the world down to their size and slowly make their presence felt. Note: Available in French language.

  • Slap Happy Jim

    James Anderson’s exuberant paper cell animation “Slap Happy Jim” features a skinny man in a canoe (with a bicycle on his head) who faces all manners of unexpected travails.

  • Slow Dance World

    In Hindu mythology, dance represents the rhythm of life and Shiva – god of creative and destructive forces- is master of the dance. As Shiva imagines the creation of the world in his mind’s eye, the forms, the textures and movements found in air, earth and water are revealed. Satisfied with his plan, Shiva brings the world into being and in the end is united with his creation. This film was created by animating three-dimensional objects on a colour photocopier.

  • So Far So

    A pencil portrait of the artist as a young woman. My Boyfriend Gave Me Peaches: Fleming utilizes her quirky, elegantly minimalistic style to superb effect in this film, a humorously nasty teenage girls’ ditty about a mean boyfriend who gets bumped down the stairs and carted off in an ambulance. I Love My Work: In the faux-naif stick-figure animation Fleming describes the plight of the modern woman who insists on trying to get to work, despite horoscope warnings that she should stay at home.

  • So-Lo

    A trail of two feet. These feet go many places but arrive nowhere; there are no endings, only pauses and new beginnings. What is more important, the goal or the trip?

  • Bedtime Story

    A timeless tale with a twist. Mother puts her child to bed, a witch and an artist make a deal and the moral of the story is … up to you. An exploration of stop-motion animation and composition combining human, wooden and feline actors.

  • Sparkill Ave

    Named after the street on which he lives in Tappan, New York, “Sparkhill Ave” continues the autobiographical line of inquiry through family, friends, neighbours, community, and Americana that began with “T.Z. “(1979) and passed through “Trial Balloons” (1982), “Bang!” (1986), and “A Frog on the Swing” (1988). In addition to his usual improvisations on form, colour, and motion, Breer collages and animates photographs of street scenes, parades and seasonal variations in the landscape. Combined with an unusual-for-him continuously running synthesizer soundtrack, “Sparkill Ave” paints a portrait of a small town, a seemingly closed system that’s never the less informed by…

  • Starcycle

    A playful, improvisational line animation, “Starcycle” follows the birth, death, and rebirth of a star which can transform itself into everything from a television set to fireworks. The soundtrack, composed of children’s reactions to the visuals, creates a participatory atmosphere for the audience.