Keywords: Páraic McGloughlin, weval
Last week’s short, Persistence of Vision, was an example of a replacement animation with a narrow concept—taking a single, static image and using the patterns […]
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Keywords: christopher eales, kirsten lepore, migration, william bishop-stephens
It’s Friday, April 3. In Calgary, there’s a fresh layer of snow falling that might be pretty if it was still February, but weeks into […]
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Last week’s short was an example of how animation can expand a single moment into something bigger. Ismael Sanz-Pena’s Persistence of Vision series does something […]
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In The Order of Time, Carlo Rovelli lays out in a wonderfully poetic way how time isn’t real, at least not in the rigid, ordered […]
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Keywords: Alice Saey, monday short
A few years ago, Alice Saey’s video for the song Happy by Mark Lotterman took the film festival circuit by storm. Expect the video for […]
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Keywords: monday short
There’s a fine line between the terrestrial and the cosmic in Anastasia Melikhova’s short film, Eternity. The shimmering figures that open the film could be […]
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Keywords: Amy Kravitz, Ana Pérez López, Anna Budanova, Anna Ginsburg, Caitlyn McCarthy, Celine Devaux, Elenor Kopka, emily downe, Gina Kamentsky, h kristen campbell, jennifer zheng, Jenny Jokela, Jessica Ashman, Jonni Phillips, laura goncalves, Laura Jayne, Laura Spark, Lénaïg La Moigne, mai nguyen, Martina Scarpelli
Hard to believe it’s been two years since we last shared a thread of animators for International Women’s Day. Well, here are 20 films that […]
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A lot of films are inspired by stories, but fewer are inspired specifically by books. The films in this list are a few of our […]
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Keywords: Michelle Brand, monday short, multiverse
Michelle Brand’s Synchronicity starts simply enough, with a progression of rough, gestural drawings of people in public. Their poses are casual if a little impatient–people […]
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Keywords: acid rain, monday short, tomek popakul
At this point it’s definitely silly to be frustrated by the Academy Awards’ treatment of animation, but nonetheless: in yesterday’s Oscar broadcast, the presenter of […]
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Keywords: monday short, simon feat
The typical portrait of time is rigid and relentless: the gears of a stopwatch turning in mechanistic precision, or an hourglass and its slow, inevitable […]
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Keywords: monday short, Nate Milton
Nate Milton has an absolutely uncanny ability to distill complex emotions into singular images. As a viewer, that makes his films incredibly pleasant to watch. […]
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Keywords: animals
The best animated shorts have a unique way of balancing absurdity with emotional honesty. Chez Moi finds plenty of humour in introducing a sharp-dressed birdman into […]
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Keywords: monday short
I’m a little shocked that I haven’t featured any of Emily Downe’s films in this blog before. Films like Spinning Record and The Redness of […]
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Keywords: monday short, vivek shraya
If there is a more wide-ranging artist than Vivek Shraya in Canada today, it’s hard to imagine how. In the past year, the Edmonton-born, Toronto-based […]
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Keywords: astigmatismo, focus, monday short, nicolai troshinsky
Where to even start with Astigmatismo. Back in 2013, our festival jury awarded it with an honourable mention for Most Innovative Animation, and six years […]
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Keywords: monday short, oliver sacks
Traditional documentaries make a claim to capturing the real world, to finding the true story around certain people or events. Never mind the fact that […]
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CW: Eating disorders An honest admission: One of my biggest regrets as a programmer at an animation festival is missing Egg in its initial run. […]
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Keywords: annihilation, dedsa, monday short, robbie ward
It’s been a few weeks since we’ve done a Monday Short–getting a festival lineup together takes a lot out of you, it turns out–but fortunately […]
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Keywords: monday short, pangolin and the hedgehog
If you have an aversion for all things sweet, Paolo Russo’s paint-on-glass film The Pangolin and the Hedgehog may not be for you. Let your […]
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Keywords: monday short, Patrick McHale
(btw, don’t miss our screening of Over the Garden Wall on October 19!) Before it was fleshed out into a 10-film miniseries (which constitutes one […]
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Keywords: monday short, rune spaan
It’s been a few years since we showed The Absence of Eddy Table at GIRAF, but it isn’t the kind of film that ever strays […]
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Keywords: monday short
It’s ultimately a personal matter, but I’d argue animation is at its best when it functions as poetry rather than prose. Especially when it comes […]
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Keywords: monday short, prologue, richard williams
Richard Williams’ passing last week at the age of 86 was a massive blow for the animation industry. Partly it’s because of his stature—the loss […]
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Keywords: max hattler, monday short, procedural art
Watching Max Hattler’s Divisional Articulations is like watching a machine in motion. Even without knowing what any individual piece is for, there’s a satisfying chug […]
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