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Sleeping Betty | Isabelle au bois dormant
Director: Claude Cloutier
Canada, 2007, 10 min
Betty sleeps in a narcoleptic stupor. The king appeals to his subjects to wake the princess, and a number of them rise to the challenge, including a handsome prince. But can Betty be wakened with just a kiss? Sleeping Betty is the Perreault classic revisited by the sharp pen of Claude Cloutier. His ornate, India-ink animation sweeps us away to a disjointed, anachronistic and playful world inspired by Victorian engravings.
Blue Like a Gunshot
Director: Masoud Raouf
Canada, 2003, 6 min
This visual poem sees the absurd vanity of war in contrast to the harmony and perpetuity of nature.
Cell Animation
Director: Nick Hilligoss
Australia, 1998, 5 min
A free-spirited, artistic soul gets thrown in jail for drawing outside the lines. With the use of his imagination and a box of crayons he is able to create his own wilderness, and escapes.
Crank
Director: Kevin Langdale
Canada, 2001, 6 min
The seemingly nonsensical is juxtaposed with the precision of science to illustrate how our belief in the order of language does not guarantee communication.
Father and Daughter
Director: Michael Dudok de Wit
Netherlands, 2000, 9 min
A father says goodbye to his young daughter and leaves. As the wide Dutch landscapes live through their seasons, so the girl lives through hers. She becomes a young woman, has a family, and in time she becomes old, yet within her there is always a deep longing for her father. Oscar Winner
A House / Ouchi
Director: Koji Yamamura
Japan, 1993, 4 min
One winter day, two birds find a big tree and decide to build their house there.
L'homme sans ombre
Director: George Schwizgebel
Canada/Switzerland, 2004, 10 min
A man agrees to a pact with a magician and swaps his shadow for riches. He soon discovers that the absence of a shadow can be a humiliating handicap.
The Monk and the Fish
Director: Michael Dudok de Wit
Netherlands, 1994, 6 min
A monk becomes obsessed with a fish and tries everything to catch it.
The Salt Mill
Director: Piotr Sapegin
Norway, 2000, 6 min
A story about how the sea became salt, and a little bit more…
Sea Song
Director: Richard Reeves
Canad, 1999, 4 min
This is an animated look into the sparkling ocean at night.