Genres: Animation

  • Two Taa Too

    A sequel to “Primiti Too Taa” which playfully animates the original film in different film frame sizes (Super 8, 16mm and 35mm).

  • Eve-olve!

    A short clay-animated film which takes a humorous look at the phenomenon of Social Darwinism. The arbitrariness of the selection process becomes evident as three different characters are selected for or against, on the basis of quite dubious criteria. The ubiquitous hand of Darwin deals summarily with each character.

  • TV Did This to Me

    Some people are too attached to their televisions. This film uses photocopies to animate one girl’s intimate afternoon with her TV set. As the world around her explodes with excitement, she remains plugged into the main drain. This is a love letter to a girl and the boob tube.

  • Candy Kisses

    Two girls going through a break-up try to avoid bitter drama and embrace the sweetness of why they liked each other in the first place. Through stop-motion animation their hearts burst and candy tears fill the screen to perform a sad crazy dance.

  • sea song

    This animated film flows through a vibrant underwater landscape, shown at night time. Sound and picture are drawn directly on film – cameraless animation.

  • Bon Vivant

    “Bon Vivant” is a fanciful cut-out animation about a magic circle that suddenly appears in the middle of a street in the city. To the great surprise of the dapper little man who discovers this circle, it has the power to make things appear and disappear. Told without words, this is a film that will engage the imagination of the viewer and can be used to open discussion of the need for magic in our lives.

  • Fries with That

    “Fries with That” is the story of one boy’s heroic triumph over the fear and awkwardness Western culture often associates with death, as explained through the eyes of his sister – a girl still too young to be tainted by negative predisposition and unnatural paranoia. As the boy sets out into the world to discover whatever good fortune may lie in what’s left of his future, we are reminded by his sister’s gift to him that in times of difficulty, often the only solution is to be found in something as simple as a box of french fries… With music…

  • Notebook on Lightning Bolts & Turntables

    “Notebook on Lightning Bolts & Turntables” is an animated adventure that moves through the city in search of safe havens, house music, romantic boys in record stores, distracting images from childhood, and finally into the place where we all want to be…all in the attempt to find a place of least-anxiety. Shot on Super 8 and blown up to 16mm, “Notebook on Lightning Bolts & Turntables” is an animation film that encompasses clay-mation, cell animation, and live action.

  • Hair Pie

    A tale of sweet revenge between two bake-off buckaroos.

  • Contrafacta

    Contrafacta is a collage animation made by Toronto filmmakers Roberto Ariganello and Chris Gehman. Using images from medieval artworks, and quotations from the writings of medieval mystics and poets, Contrafacta creates a web of related images and events without a simple connective narrative. “This painstakingly crafted medievalist tale… conjure[s] a dreamland of floating royals and waltzing unicorns. Birth, death, plague and the farming of souls all rub shoulders in this episodic surrealist fable. In a dance of grace and punishment where miracles are commonplace, we follow the descent of a royal egg which hatches the changing shape of the world.”…