Animation

  • Spider Antarctica

    A fictional scientific documentary about a brilliantly colored and choreographed ice skating spider. The spider has emerged from the melting Antarctica ice as a result of global warming.

    Biography

    Daniel S. Hrishkewich has worked as a fine artist for over 25 years with sculpture, painting, and photography being his main artistic practices. Utilizing the skills he acquired through these mediums, animation became a natural extension of his artistic direction. Spider Antarctica is his first film.
  • Light

    Light follows an elderly artist whose frustration sees him reborn in the pursuit of a fleeting dream.

  • The Scared Seven
    One young foster child defies all odds to establish balance through routine and spiritual enlightenment.
  • Dead Ringer

    Shot in 3DIY. A tsunami of magnetic rays disrupts the primitive cell-phone broadcast of a Horseshoe Match. The Moral: Never mount a satellite dish on your microwave!
  • Praying Mantis Up Skirt
    A band of insects wreak havoc over the prairies and silly praying mantis can’t seem to keep up.
  • 5 Cents a Copy
    An innovative experimental animated film that makes moving images with a photocopy machine. Through bizarre images and a pulsing electronic musical score, the filmmakers have created a mind expanding work that will long remain in your memory.
  • Primiti Too Taa
    A delightful animated poem made with only a typewriter and simple vocal messages.
  • Harmaline
    Harmaline refers to a chemical compound present in the shamanistic snuff mixture ayahuasca used throughout areas of South America. The video loosely references the psychological effects of the compound harmaline as well as traditions associated with religious use of hallucinogens.
  • two minus one
    A man and a woman. Then just a man after a woman.
  • Carousel
    What you are about to witness is a fear seeded from the sleepless nights of children. The still, dark night consumes what is safe about your bedroom. In a moonlight room, the shadows in the faces of toys can reflect the macabre. Adulthood shatters the notion that inanimate objects can attain life when you are not looking.  But what if, one night, you wake to the tune of a carousel as it turns without your influence. There is no one else in the room. Get ready for an intimate experience with unnatural forces.
  • Dreams of Mourning
    A man wakes, only to find himself inside a painted landscape – a moving Monet. The dreamscape is in constant flux, nature reshapes and reforms around him, in conflict, like his desire to free himself of his surreal confinement. Will he be lost forever in this never ending fancy of disappear like a faded memory?
  • The Falling Man
    The Falling Man is a mostly black and white computer animation about suicide, travel, and  windows. It is based upon many Edward Hopper paintings. In honour of "Rumblefish", there is  also one orange fish in the film, set against the monochromatic colour scheme.
  • Fantasy Beyond
    A young girl’s visit to an art gallery has her pitted against the forces of evil. Only a duo of rock n’ roll warriors can save her, but not before paying the ultimate price...
  • An Ice Cream Lesson
    With the voice of their mother giving guidance, a brother and sister proceed to eat their chocolate ice cream cones.  The two siblings learn the joys and sorrows of eating the ice cream cone when the older brother begins to bite the cone from the bottom and not the top.  The cone topples and he responds in terror as the sister watches on.  The mother kindly provides a second cone to comfort the distraught youngster.
  • Monument

    A boy embarks on an odyssey in what appears to be a bleak and destitute landscape. It is, however, the very journey that leads him to discover not only the hidden meaning of his environment but also his own identity and ultimately, his very destiny.

    “MONUMENT” is a hand drawn animated film written, directed, animated and produced by Alain Delannoy. This independent production was inspired by thematic elements found in the filmmaker's French Canadian heritage and has proven to be his most challenging and ambitious projects to date. Produced over a span of five years, four thousand handcrafted drawings were created to compose and ultimately complete this twelve minute long film. Without spoken language, MONUMENT follows the adventure of a young boy living within a large scale and imposing environment. He is propelled on a journey that consumes his life but in the end grants him a perspective in which he can find peace (or solace).

  • Photosynthesis
    Through the magic of stop motion, and time lapse photography watch as the  inanimate becomes animated in a world that exists only behind closed doors.
  • Mahaha the Tickler
    Mahaha the Tickler is about an Inuit legend about a spirit who tickles prankster cops to death.
  • Automoto
    An animated re-imagining of the filmmaking process, Automoto takes place inside the ornately mechanized cinematic workshop of a wooden skeleton. Shot entirely using stop-motion animation, the film follows the movie-making travails of the skeleton. When he runs into a bad case of writer's block, only one of his factory workers can help him get back in touch with his muse.
  • Moving
    Moving is a short whimsical tale about getting from Point A to Point B. Made for the Winnipeg Film Group's 3rd Annual 48 Hour Film Festival, which took home first prize.
  • Tattoo Step
    Temporary Tattoos applied to 35mm for eternity. An energetic conjuring of Manitoban spirits. Starring: Haunted HyperActive Hypnotists and Breakneck Butterfly Barfbags.
  • Courtship
    When my grandmother died I inherited her old photos - pictures that my grandfather took in the early stages of their relationship. This watercolour animation is based on those pictures and the decline they foreshadow.
  • Shutter
    A musical exploration of the pain of unrequited love. A young woman sings of her struggle with her in-obedient heart.
  • Spider Cookies
    The spider was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
    An unfortunate spider ends up in the mixing bowl while two youngsters are learning to bake cookies. Who wants to eat a cookie with spider guts?
  • The Bicycle Lesson

    A five year old boy's first bicycle lesson, given to him by his older brother and sister, goes terribly wrong. It is based on the true story of a childhood friend's disastrous first bicycle lesson.
  • Loving the Bomb

    Atomic positive propaganda and historical accounts of nuclear explosions infiltrate the daily existence of a family living in a town supported by atomic bomb production.

    Loving the Bomb interweaves the accounts of scientists and soldiers involved in nuclear weapons testing and atomic positive propaganda with the lives of a family living in a town supported by the production of nuclear arms, to create a portrait of a community that is harmed by, yet reliant upon, this contentious industry.
  • Static
    A tortured musician trying to cope with the need to create.
  • Praying Mantis Upskirt
    A band of insects wreak havoc over the prairies and silly praying mantis can’t seem to keep up.
  • Cattle Call
    Cattle Call is a high-speed animated documentary about the art of livestock auctioneering. Structured around the mesmerizing talents of 2007 Manitoba /Saskatchewan Auctioneer Champion, Tim Dowler, and using a variety of classic and avant-garde animation techniques (including stop-motion, cut-outs, open-exposures, hole-punching and rubbing lettraset directly on the celluloid) filmmakers Maryniuk and Rankin have tried to create images as dazzlingly abstract, absurd and adrenalizing as the incredible language of auctioneering itself. It is their hope that the film will induce near-bovine levels of dumbfoundedness in all those who gaze upon it.
  • 5 Cents a Copy
    An innovative experimental animated film that makes moving images with a photocopy machine. Through bizarre images and a pulsing electronic musical score, the filmmakers have created a mind expanding work that will long remain in your memory.
  • Ask Me
    An experimental camera-less animation piece worked directly on black leader.
  • Daydream
    A short trip into daydream-like surrealism.
  • Love Means Never Asking You To Shave Your Legs
    A country and western love song for the 90's by a man who has a few problems adjusting to the women of the 90's. For the men who have trouble letting go of the traditions of their fathers, advice from someone who has been there.
  • Once Upon A Weiner
    A cartoon dog named Fred tries to catch himself a steak by using a fishing rod but instead his line gets caught on a truck. After getting dragged through town, he flies through a deli window and gets turned into a weiner.
  • Primiti Too Taa
    A delightful animated poem made with only a typewriter and simple vocal messages.
  • Sarah's Dream
    Plasticine animation tells the quick amusing story of a girl whose wish to move to Canada from the Old Country is granted.
  • Silence of the Clams
    A contemporary comedy about the perils of suburban life! From the creator of the syndicated comic strip Peaches.
  • Tales of the Steamin' Green Log
    An animated tale of a story heard about a canoe trip.
  • Trees
    25,000 pine seedlings are planted every spring and cared for by children. This video was animated for the TransAlta Utilities Arbor Day Program.
  • Dial M for Monster
    A frustrated younger sibling refuses to be the victim of her older brother's scaring. She breaks her piggy bank to hire a monster to get even.
  • Psychomonk
    Psychomonk is raised from the dead to kill off cartoons that suck. On his way to kill loopy squirel, Psychomonk encounters a couple of loopy's buddies, Joe Bug and Mr. Butterfly. In the end, Psychomonk has to deal with loopy squirel's new weapon.
  • Adam's Dream
    Good and evil, sword and sorcery and Adam and Eve, all combine in this visually stimulating animated feast.
  • Gerald the Genie
    A cartoon about getting labeled. When Gerald innocently bounces into view, a group of off screen voices try to figure out who he is.
  • Going Ape
    Do we come from Adam and Eve, or from a creature that would later make a fuss atop the Empire State Building? In 90 seconds this animated film will give you a new perspective on the origin of life as we think we know it.
  • Sijjil
    This animation celebrates the dot.