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Smartphones cannot feel, smell or taste, yet they are not without their own senses. Using raw data from the low-level sensors of a cell phone, this film offers a unique point of view on the world as it might appear to our increasingly aware mobile devices.

Produced as part of the 9th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.

An adventure through the cosmic unveiling of the beautiful and strange macro/micro structures that unite us with the Universe.

Produced as part of the 9th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.

A woman looks out across a lake, where each drop of water contains a memory of a pioneer in women’s sports, preserved forever.

Produced as part of the 9th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.

Grace Fall is about the struggles and joys of trying to perform impossibly well in a circus whose troupe members aren’t really visible, but can certainly be perceived regardless.

Produced as part of the 9th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.

Tormented forms struggle to break free of their bonds in this abstract animated short.

Produced as part of the 9th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.

In this short animation film a prairie landscape undergoes a metamorphosis from rural idyll to over-urbanized dystopia. Director Anne Koizumi laments the changing face of her hometown of Calgary in this critique of the bacteria-like spread of suburbia and exurbia.

Produced as part of the third edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.

This short animation film is a “water poem,” set in a Japanese ofuro hot bath. It explores water as a medium and repository for collective stories and was created in a hybrid new media form using animation, video and split screens.

Produced as part of the first edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship. Theme was "Water and Our Relationship to It".

The body is a magnificent system. But its harmony can be interrupted, sometimes by subversive agents within. Sick uses stop motion to bring to life a knitted body in a fanciful journey through the pulsating organs and dark recesses of the human body.

Produced as part of the 7th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.

This short animation film is an “epic” adventure and a magical environmental fairy tale. Amy Lockhart uses cutouts, drawings and collage (captured and manipulated as digital multi-plane animation) to conjure up her whimsical world.

Produced as part of the second edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.

This is a combination of stop-motion puppet and drawn animation. We observe a forlorn woman on a Halifax dock, whose loneliness is lifted by the passing of a fishing trawler. A metaphor on the connectiveness of water and water's capacity as a medium of freedom.

Produced as part of the first edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship. Theme was "Water and Our Relationship to It".

This short animation film is about two little men floating into the deep blue sky, tied to balloons. But then each decides the sky belongs to him.

Produced as part of the fourth edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.