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Fluorescent Hill’s Migration (2014)

It’s not a film to be scrutinized, but there’s something in watching its graceless critters lumber towards their destiny that can’t help but feel uplifting.

shot of a field with two trees. The picture has a filter to make it look noisy, sepia-toned, as if it's a flashback. at the foot of the main tree is an egg-shaped figure looking off into the distance. Florence Hill's Migration (2013)

NOTE: This Monday short was originally uploaded on September 25, 2017. We are re-uploading Peter Hemminger's Monday Shorts until I exhaust this fantastic archive and resource.

Well, it’s officially autumn. And even if it is an unseasonably warm one right now, it’s still a time of year that mixes beauty and melancholy (Theresa's note: As an avid snowboarder, I'm feeling this but with Spring right now!). Which is exactly the tone struck by Fluorescent Hill’s 2014 animated short, Migration. The filmmakers pull out all the stops to give their short a nostalgic haze, filtering every frame until it looks like light-leaked, red-shifted found footage, tracking the migratory patters of an odd, awkward species.

Migration is a mood piece more than anything, with McKenzie Stubbert’s score doing as much of the heavy lifting as any of the animation. It’s not a film to be scrutinized, but there’s something in watching its graceless critters lumber towards their destiny that can’t help but feel uplifting.

syn. A vintage nature film follows the migratory pattern of a herd wild creatures.

dir. Fluorescent Hill (Mark Lomond and Johanne Ste-Marie)

2014