Genres: Animation

  • Kiri and The Girl

    Based on the experiences of Tlingit artist Kiri Geen as she reconnected and reclaimed her Indigenous heritage after her adoption, “Kiri and The Girl” follows young Kiri as she navigates losing her mother and is guided to becoming her true self.

  • The Danse Macabre

    A graveyard dance party.

  • Cod Story

    This is a case study of the Canadian cod fisheries collapse of 1992. It investigates what the future of natural resource management holds, and what we can learn from our past mistakes.

  • lessons on flight

    Shot on B&W 16 mm film, eco-processed with olives and hand coloured on site in rural Chile, lessons on flight examines the flight patterns of the green-backed firecrown hummingbird. lessons on flight is an exercise in site-based eco processing, where the film’s shooting site also provided the materials for processing. The film was shot in rural Chile, at the site of the filmmaker’s father’s childhood home, and was developed with olives freshly picked in the yard. The oil from the olives left a cast on the film that interacted with food colouring placed on the film following fixing, leaving unique…

  • The Sound of dust from Asteroids and Comets, that have been torn apart by the Sun’s gravity

    The Sound of dust from Asteroids and Comets, that have been torn apart by the Sun’s gravity Animated(2023 04:53), super 8 film, painted by hand with ink direct on the celluloid. on a super 8 film material that “failed” when I developed it by hand. The sound collage consists of parts of a material from Nasa, where they have tried to illustrate how different sounds could sound in space if there were sound waves there.

  • xīn nī 廖芯妮

    xīn nī 廖芯妮 (“understanding you”) is an intimate auto-ethnographic portrait expressed through dance and digital technologies. Liaw engages in intergenerational conversations with her family and community to transform the linguistic divide between her Chinese name and its Hakka translation into a space for healing. Drawing on themes of decolonizing queerness to emphasize self-love and self-curiosity, the work explores both physical and technological attachments. Bodies made up of 3D-rendered cultural objects hold space for the stories of Liaw’s elders, while expanding the growing web of her ancestral knowledge. 

  • Mishaps in Spacetime

    Doubt creeps in as Cosmo, a space traveller, addresses his gender identity. In need of clarity and change, he wants to risk crossing the Butterfly Nebula. His spaceship, on the other hand, has a personality of her own. Cosmo will need to negotiate change with a certain loss of control. Screened at the 2025 IndieLisboa International Film Festival and 2025 XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin.

  • God Parasite

    Angels construct the body of Adam, whose mind is then infiltrated by a parasite, altering his being. Experience the loss of human identity through the ethereal nightmare of evolution: the God Parasite.

  • Help! I’m Stranded…

    The filmmaker, stranded in a motel room, animates texture rubbings of items that are available, such as matchbooks and bathroom tiles – complementing her drawings with the natural sounds of the rubbing process, doors opening, and water dripping. “The audience is treated to rather simple images seen in a new light” (Grand Rapids Press).

  • Abgad Hawaz

    Robin Riad’s short hand-drawn analogue film ostensibly teaches the pronunciation of the Arabic Alphabet in 28 easy steps. In actuality, the hand-drawn letters were printed using a laser jet printer onto the optical soundtrack of 16mm film, and what you hear in the film is the projector reading the letters, and interpreting them into sound. Riad uses humour to play with and sit with her mother tongue, offering a ‘false’ lesson in pronunciation. A response to a digital form of anti-Arab hate that Riad witnessed online coming out of the genocide in Gaza, Abgad Hawaz is a way for her…