Oddball Animation

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    Drama Nienke Deutz

    Bloeistraat 11

    Inseparable best friends spend their last summer holiday of childhood amusing themselves around the house. As summer progresses, an awkwardness descends on their friendship. Puberty seems determined to interrupt their bond.

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    Experimental Chris Landreth

    Subconscious Password

    A forgotten name leads to a mind-bending romp through a game show of the unconscious.

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    Experimental

    Sensology

    A feast for the senses blending improvised music with abstract animation in this 4-year long hand-drawn animation.

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    Thriller Lizzie Oxby

    Extn.21

    A dystopic and surreal experience of a man who just wants to be heard. An innovative blend of atmospheric stop-frame animation, live action performance and digital effects creates a dark world of uncertain reality in this classic from 2003

  • Interview

    Interview with Jossie Malis (Bendito Machine)

    Many filmmakers look at short films as their teenage years—happy to get past them and on to something bigger. Jossie Malis is one of the few who understood the power he'd created with his minimalist animated short Bendito Machine and has spent the past 6 years building a franchise around it.

  • Festival

    NFB Playlist for the Ottawa International Animation Festival

    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.

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    Documentary Moth Collective

    A Kiss, Deferred

    A 12-year-old girl’s life and love are shattered by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina - The Moth's Collective's stunning entry into the New York Times' 'Modern Love' series.

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