The Animation Workshop brings us a fully-realized world with strong visual metaphors about the pressures of responsibility.
An American advertising producer in Shanghai tries to sell fast food to the Chinese. An endearing portrait of a modern day “Mad Man.”
Keith’s typical day turns red in this violent stick figure animation with a larger message.
A revenge fantasy about that jerk behind you in traffic.
Just another day at work in this poignant animation that played Ottawa, Annecy, and Stuttgart.
The mysterious events at a 1970′s high school are revealed between the pages of an old yearbook in this animation from collage veteran, Kelly Sears.
Branded Content for Chipotle, this short animation from RCA-grad Johnny Kelly uses stop-mo, clean designs and Willie Nelson (!) to tell a touching story of sustainable agriculture.
3 friends create three indelible short travel films, each centering around a specific topic.
A remarkable interactive media experience about a town that’s no longer on the map, but is not forgotten.
Warfare is entering a digital generation. In this infographics piece from down under we learn about one of the scariest new viruses out there.
Ai Wei Wei, China’s most famous artist and dissident. Watch this short film from Alison Klayman who spent months documenting his life.
A brief funky animation about the power of music in a futuristic fascist state
Television controls every moment of our lives in this stark animation from Estonia’s Martinus Klemet
It’s December in New York City, and it’s 120 degrees. Bato and his wife are expecting a baby, but he’s faced with the choice of giving up his identity to ensure a safe delivery.
In the future, technology may change, but the patterns and routines of daily life stay constant—until we disrupt them.
Tim Minchin’s poem of an evening dinner conversation about spirituality and the age-old battle between spirituality and science.
When every parent is selecting for desirable traits, one expecting mother “rolls the dice” and tests the morality of the system.
Good artists copy—great artists steal. How everything from music to movies is influenced, based on, or derivative of previous genius.
A runaway train provides the scene for cartoonish antics and bitingly funny class conflicts.
Watching the dramas of daily life unfold from underneath the surface.
What if fantasy characters from World of Warcraft existed in our world? That’s what this documentary from Dublin explores, and I in turn explore how the film is perfect representative of short film today.
A love story to Canada, Guy Maddin directs this film for the NFB about a Bosnian immigrant who uses the Aurora Borealis to broadcast images across the country.
A recent Oscar nominee, an absurd crime reveals itself as a poignant ritual for a family in post-Chernobyl Ukraine
An examination of beauty as seen through the eyes of mannequin manufacturers.
Beautiful yet brash poetry of Canadian Al Purdy colorfully animated with crude painting and yellow flowers.
