Genres: Animation

  • Poised and in the Throes

    A stop-animation piece constructed from found photographic sources pays homage to Kenneth Anger, Jack Smith, Jean Genet and Fassbinder’s “Querelle.”

  • Secret Loves of Jesse James, The

    An animated meditation on the theme of satyriasis, the excessive and often uncontrollable sexual desire in men. Through the archetype of the cowboy code, “The Secret Loves of Jesse James” explores how the masculine discourse of the West is balanced upon a razor’s edge of intimacy and violence.

  • Suck-A-Thumb

    Konrad is a bright young boy, kind of heart and full of joy, but…he has a terrible addiction that can only end in one painful and bloody way! See him SUCK! See his Mother SCREAM! See the terrible scissors go SNIP-SNAP! Filmed in frightening 2D Shad-O-Vision. Not for the faint hearted.

  • Nose, The

    An ambitious civil servant wakes one morning to find his nose is missing. Surrealism and fantasy collide with mundane bureaucratic reality as he attempts to recover it. Based on the story by Nikolai Gogol.

  • Recipes for Reconstruction: The Cookbook for the Frugal Filmmaker

    Special Book and DVD Set Veteran animator and filmmaker Steven Woloshen introduces a variety of simple artistic strategies to create decay and to re-assemble damaged film prints into new experimental visions. This book includes a special DVD (NTSC) with nine short films created specially for this do-it-yourself, “hands-on” manual. An excellent resource for film production courses and workshops. Featuring nine chapters & accompanying films: 1. Chronicle Reconstructions: Creating Reconstructions 2. Zero Visibility: Reproducing Decay and Damage 3. La Dolce Vita: Hasty Archaeology 4. Scrapbook: Correcting Correlations 5. Fleeing Rotland: Revitalizing Obsolete Gauges on 35mm Film 6. The Homestead Act: Using…

  • Beyond Enchantment

    Where all is static motion; where music and light become one; where change and motion become one; and where the end is the beginning. Black-and-white cut-out animation with touches of color. Ladies of the past encounter science and natural phenomena.

  • ABSTRACT RANDOM “COWBOY” feat. ILL NANA DiverseCity Dance Company

    “Without girls there’d be no world!” “COWBOY” is about gender bending, questioning authority, and challenging the norm. The film is an Abstract Random Production featuring the amazing and beautiful, Ill Nana DiverseCity Dance Company. Abstract Random is a live-experimental-electro-dub-hop-bring back cool feminist-political group, based out of Toronto, Canada. Abstract Random is also available for live performance bookings with visual accompaniment.

  • Don’t Bug Me

    Messy lives. Messy relationship. Messy sock drawers. This short and sweet animation will show you how to tidy it all up in less than one minute.

  • Doubt

    “Doubt” combines a large range of formal techniques, from collage animation to trance psychodrama to structuralism to diary film to found film in some very humorous ways. Under it all, the film tells the vague story of a man’s search for happiness within a chaotic world which seems bent on restricting all joy.

  • As Above So Below

    Simard’s lovely animation explores the tensions between the extraordinary and the ordinary, and the search to transcend everyday experience. Inspired by the art of Alexandra Luke. Part of the TAIS Eleven in Motion program. Selected screenings: London International Animation Festival, 2011; Melbourne International Animation Festival, 2011; Anima Mundi, 2010; Animafest Zagreb, 2010.