Cordell Barker’s original, funny, and beautifully created stop motion 8 minute gem is a superb and, somewhat, self deprecating view into the life of a boy (himself?) who has visions of God like powers. This “what would happen if” story supposes the boy’s future never to be. Although, in the end, a mini fire in …
Month: April 2018
A young man makes his morning coffee and a mouse in Haida appears knitting a blanket, at speed, that tells a great story. A great sea hunter sits on the shore of the ocean and goes into the sea to capture his prey. The hunter is himself captured and taken to an under sea world …
A five minute short dealing with the meaning of life, the entire course of time from the beginning to the end, the simplicity of everyday existence whilst universes explode and go out of being. All done and accomplished with the simplest of 2D images and with a narrative told by Canadian performer Nicolas Campbell. Eoin …
Picking up on some of her characters from elsewhere Chintis Lundgren, an Estonian by birth, has crafted an original fable that plays on a number of themes in a satirical way that utilises Theatre of the Absurd to tell its story. Manivald, a fox, lives at home with his domineering and possessive Mother. He plays …
The film tells the story of Nicola Tesla (1856-1943) a Serbian American, electrical engineer, physicist and visionary who conceived the concept of limitless wireless electrical power that could be distributed worldwide. He died without personal power, recognition or wealth and his work fell into relative obscurity. Rediscovered in the 1990’s Mathew Rankin captures both the …
An attack on the power of the petrol industry, on the dominance of the car in our modern life, in the destruction of the environment and, most devastating of all, the blind acceptance of it all that allows it! Claude Cloutier (Sleeping Betty, The Trenches) has threatening singing cars lined up performing “Que Sera, Sera” …
A stunning animated short film from Bruce Alcock and Paton Francis written by Michael Crummey. In 1914 a sealing ship met with disaster when 132 men became separated from their ship and were stranded on the ice. 78 of the men froze to death. Through the words of a sealer who experienced the sealing trade …
Director Howie Shia has a reputation for films that alternate mythology with a modern urban World (Ice Ages, Flutter). BAM is a film short (under six minutes) that takes the life of a young shy boxer who suffers with an inability to understand or deal with his own temper both in the ring and out …