Hothouse 2
About Hothouse 2
Take six promising animation filmmakers from across Canada, plant them in the NFB’s English Animation Studio, give them 12 weeks to create extremely short animation from concept to release with the full support and assistance of NFB creative experts and, voilà, the NFB Animation Hothouse! This is a practical prototype to both “talk the talk” of theory, and “walk the walk” of actually doing it.
Each year, The National Film Board of Canada seeks submissions from emerging filmmakers (young and not-so-young), and artists intrigued by animation art. Six are chosen as winners. Hothouse is about re-imagining ways of making animation, ways that are faster, more flexible, and which embrace the many possibilities in the animation process while maintaining creative and technical excellence.
Cartoons
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A Single Tear
An "epic" adventure featuring a diamond guy, a dog fish and a boot. Watch and see what happens! Audacious, bold and somewhat bewildering, director Amy Lockhart uses cutouts, drawings and co…
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Bones & Boats
A sweeping tale of Victorian-era hubris and folly, ending, as all such tales did, in the tragedy of individual human disaster. Director Kevin Langdale employs many tricks of the "epic" film…
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Eaude
Director Thea Pratt explores the exhilarating moment of a poetic dive through the mind's landscape of watery reflections. The free movement of the animated puppet diver is inspiration to a…
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Glou Glou
Life is beautiful, but life hangs on strings that can easily break if we don't take care of ourselves and our world. We all know this but seldom react to the many alarming signs; countless…
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Ice Ages
Seeking shelter from an ominous thunderstorm, a man sits in a dark pub watching the ice in his glass melt away. Director Howie Shia marries his striking graphic illustration style with subt…
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Immersion
First-time filmmaker Megann Reid's intimate and personal experience of the solitude and warmth in a bath.
