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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. 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.
Cartoons
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An Aqueous Solution
An Aqueous Solution is bleak and apparently grim, but within its bleakness is an assertive statement on self-determination and the fundamental need for both dark and light.
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Aquasnazz
Jacob Bauming is a fan of extreme animation, and his film is a marvelous manifestation of this. A whirling dervish of sensory overload, Aquasnazz has a tenuous connection to snazzy "aquatic…
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Don't Blink
Don't Blink observes a young woman, somewhat forlorn on a Halifax dock, whose loneliness is lifted by the passing of an otherworldly fishing trawler. A metaphor on the connectedness of wate…
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False Saints
An elegiac requiem, False Saints is an abstract examination of society's misplaced deification of architecture and urbanization in the modern world, and the impact of that disjunction on ou…
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Submerge: Kami No Yu
A "water poem," set in director Cindy Mochizuki's familiarity with Japanese ofuro hot baths. The film explores water as a medium and repository for collective stories and histories, and for…
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System Error
A pithy critique on society's commercialization and commodification of water, its end goals abetted by an utter disregard for the future, both near or far.
