Directed by Lewis Klahr • Documentary • 2023 • 15 minutes

An amnesiac film noir that draws on 1940s and 1950s magazine imagery to create a city symphony for its lost, flâneur protagonist to wander through.

Directed by Lewis Klahr • Animation • 2024 • 15 minutes

A three-act adventure epic that genre hops from swashbucklers to westerns to melodrama. Each act occurs in a different century and is set to a different iconic song from master American song book collagist Dick Connette.

Directed by Lewis Klahr • Animation • 2019 • 9 minutes

Poetic Screenplay by Tom Gunning based on the 1944 William Castle feature "When Strangers Marry"

Directed by Lewis Klahr • Animation • 2012 • 3 minutes

A feature-length melodrama compressed into just under three minutes, in which a quintessential '60s blonde discovers who she really desires.

Directed by Lewis Klahr • Animation • 2021 • 22 minutes

An interpretive adaptation of the Greek myth and the Euripides play that uses a melange of comic book characters as its cast. Klahr's most explicitly narrative collage film. From the series The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness.

Directed by Lewis Klahr • Animation • 2012 • 13 minutes

An unfaithful and playful interpretation of John Zorn's early 80s film script Treatment For a Film in 15 Scenes, which was written as a shot list.

Directed by Signe Baumane • Animation • 2008 • 2 minutes

A take on sex exclusively from a woman's point of view. Episode 1 "Kirby". A woman discusses her feelings about… size.

Directed by Anne de Mare, Kirsten Kelly • Documentary • 2021 • 15 minutes

Built entirely by women filmmakers, THE GIRL WITH THE RIVET GUN is an unconventional animated documentary short based on the adventures of three real-life 'Rosie the Riveters' - Esther Horne, Susan Taylor King and Mildred ...

Directed by Eugenio Polgovsky • Documentary • 2016 • 7 minutes

In Lightbyrinth 21st-century digital technology meets 19th-century animation in homage to eminent physicist James C. Maxwell. Filmed in Cambridge using his original zoetrope, the film conjures a sense of wonder at early image-making ...

Directed by Co Hoedeman • Animation • 1977 • 13 minutes

A fable of great humour and appeal, The Sand Castle is the story of the Sandman and the creatures he sculpts out of sand. Under his direction, they build a castle and celebrate the completion of their new home, only to be interrupted by an ...

Directed by David Fine and Alison Snowdon • Animation • 1993 • 12 minutes

Surprise birthday parties can be risky. Especially when the guest of honour is turning 40! When Margaret plans a celebration for her husband, Bob, she underestimates the sudden impact of middle age on his mood. A witty, of...

Directed by Torill Kove • Animation • With Liv Ullmann • 2006 • 14 minutes

This Oscar®-winning short animation follows Kasper, a poet whose creative well has run dry, on a holiday to Norway to meet the famous writer Sigrid Undset. Kasper attempts to answer some pretty big questions: can we trace...

Directed by John Weldon and Eunice Macaulay • Animation • 1978 • 7 minutes

The first big mistake Ralph makes is not clearing the snow from the front walk, and his life goes downhill from that point on. By the end of the story, the mailman has fatally slipped on his job, Alice, his wife, doesn't ...

Directed by Chris Landreth • Animation • 2004 • 14 minutes

Ryan is based on the life of Ryan Larkin, a Canadian animator who, 30 years ago, produced some of the most influential animated films of his time. In the film, we hear the voices of prominent animators and artists discussing Ryan's work,...

Directed by Norman McLaren • Animation • 1952 • 8 minutes

Won the 1952 Oscar for Best Short Documentary! Two neighbours live side by side in harmony until a flower grows on the dividing line between their properties. Who does it belong to? The argument that follows ends up with both neighbours i...

Directed by Eugene Fedorenko • Animation • 1979 • 6 minutes

Produced at the invitation of the United Nations Organization to celebrate UNICEF's Declaration of Children's Rights, this film is the Canadian contribution to the hour-long feature film consisting of ten six-minute segments in celebrat...

Directed by Catherine Lepage • Animation • 2019 • 5 minutes

In the voiceover for this animated short, a young woman attempts to describe herself, casting her life in the ideal light that society expects. The film’s imagery, however, tells a different story, poignantly illustrating the intense an...

Directed by Colin MacKenzie & Aparna Kapur • Animation • 2019 • 15 minutes

When an extraordinary new resident – Balakrishna, an Indian elephant – arrived in the town of East River, Nova Scotia, in 1967, no one was more in awe of the creature than young Winton Cook, who became inseparable from hi...

Directed by Bob Godfrey • Animation • 1978 • 6 minutes

How many people have actually read the work of Karl Marx? Based on the book by the Mexican cartoonist Rius, MARX FOR BEGINNERS is a hilarious animated film that highlights Marx's most influential ideas, and places them into the context of we...

Directed by Sylvie Trouvé • Animation • 2012 • 5 minutes

Reflection is an exploration of Montreal through an abstract lens. Director Sylvie Trouvé examines how reflected images pervade our surroundings, how our senses filter out these ghost images and, finally, how the camera can capture emotion...

Directed by Christopher Auchter • Animation • 2017 • 10 minutes

The Mountain of SGaana spins a magical tale of a young man who is stolen away to the spirit world, and the young woman who rescues him. Haida filmmaker Christopher Auchter's dream-like gem brilliantly entwines traditional animation ...

Directed by Bruce Alcock • Animation • 2013 • 10 minutes

Impromptu takes a look at the redemptive power of food, wine, music and love through the eyes of a modern man. Chuck is in his element, cooking and listening to Chopin with his baby daughter, imagining what he will say to his wife Sylvie o...

Directed by Claire Blanchet • Animation • 2013 • 8 minutes

The End of Pinky revolves around three fallen angels seeking companionship and humanity in the shadows of the red-light district, in a mythic, magically realized Montreal. The survivor of traumatic childhood experiences recounted in hear...

Directed by Theodore Ushev • Animation • 2008 • 5 minutes

Partly figurative, partly abstract, Drux Flux is an animation film of fast-flowing images showing modern people crushed by industry. Inspired by One-Dimensional Man by the philosopher Herbert Marcuse, the filmmaker deconstructs industrial...