Hothouse 4
About Hothouse 4
Hothouse 4 brought together six Canadian and two Brazilian emerging filmmakers to spend three months each creating a very short film based on the theme “Chance Encounter”. They worked under the watchful eye of Academy Award winning director Torill Kove, who helped guide and advise the participants during their time at the NFB.
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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Balloons
Two little men float freely in the deep blue sky, tied to balloons. But then each decides the sky belongs to him.
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Biology Made Un-Easy
A close look (possibly too close) at the microscopic world that surrounds us. Within each basic human interaction, there is something strange festering under the surface, and we just need a…
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Cumulus
Have you ever felt like you're walking with a black cloud above your head? This multi-layered film is the story of an accumulation of encounters between such black clouds.
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Lost Monster Hop
At a signpost by the railway tracks, a tidy little banjo-picking monster is trying to find her way. She sets out on a journey and finds what she is looking for... in a rather surprising way.
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Margins
Margins was inspired by an interest in the relationship between social spaces and taboos that surround mental illness and other forms of marginalization. The film is intended as a mood piec…
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One
A minimalist piece of animation about the origin of life.
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Roy G Biv
A simple film with basic elements combined together, showing a normal thing occur in a point of view, off to the left-hand-side-of-regular approach.
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The Squirrel Next Door
A spider professes its love for the squirrel next door, and an interspecies courtship unfolds between the two doe-eyed neighbors. This stop-motion animation is a testament that there is tru…
