Tomorrow marks the beginning of this year's Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF), North America's most prestigious outlet for artistic animation. In light of the "close, intimate relationship" the festival has had with the National Film Board of Canada, this playlist of 9 films from the NFB archive was collected for the occasion.
A shy bodybuilder ventures out on a date against the wishes of his over-protective mother in this powerful character-driven film from Denmark.
StoryCorps animators, Mike and Tim Rauch, share their character design and animation process and how animation can reveal truth in ways live footage can't.
Maximall means maximalism in this outrageous and gorgeous chase film that assaults your eyes.
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.
Paul jerked off in the shower. Paul just impregnated his bath tub. Last year's most outrageous Sundance short, now online.
There's just one thing in Mark's way of a great night with a dream girlher creepy male roommatein this awkward comedy with a stellar cast of B-list celebrities.
**CURRENTLY OFFLINE** - The 2003 Oscar winner, this film is a searing and intimate portrait of a single-mom and her 4 children in contemporary Britain.
Public Television's StoryCorps oral history project selected three histories to be animated commemorating the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
A runaway train barrels through an every-changing abstract landscape in this experimental animation from the Bezalel Academy.
