Hothouse 3
About Hothouse 3
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 the third annual session.
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 (usually!) are chosen as winners.
Cartoons
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A Prairie Story
Set to a pulsing techno beat scored by Luigi Allemano, a prairie landscape undergoes a metamorphosis from rural idyll to over-urbanized dystopia. Director Anne Koizumi laments the changing…
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Feather
About finding a place to make one's home, global warming, and a combination of visual memories and imaginings strung between Newfoundland and Montreal. A little creature watches the transfo…
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Meta Pre Ptolemy
What if the laws of physics as we understand them suddenly ceased to apply? Such is the question posed by filmmaker Rachel Peters in this muted but whimsical tale of a man and his two goldf…
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Square Roots
A robot rambles about frenetically in a state of constant preoccupation. He gets countless numbers of electronic messages through his antenna every second. Despite his fatigue and stress, h…
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Swims
A figure floats in landscapes and spaces without a ground plane. Where fields of hay, asphalt, dirt, or tile once were, there is only water. The reflected skies are endless, and mirrored in…
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Vimy-Ridge
In this short animation Damien Hess attempts to connect with the tragedy of the First World War, a conflict that helped define Canada. In this film he uses imagery of the Canadian National…
