Come and watch curator Danny Lennon’s premier selection of animated shorts from around the world. Existential crises, love triangles and America’s “War on Terrorism” are on the menu.
STAND UP
6 min 50 s | Director: Joseph Pierce | 2008 | England
Told through a single stand-up comedy routine, John J Jones performs to an unforgiving audience. As he loses their interest, his body rebels against him, and the truth behind the one-liners leaks through the cracks. This is car-crash comedy at its most compulsive.
UNBELIEVABLE 4
4 min 12 s | Director: Sukwon Shin, Inpyo Hong | Animator: Sukwon Shin | South Korea | 2009
How will the unprecedented superhero team, “Unbelievable 4” fight against hundreds of evil spaceships approaching the earth?
THIS WAY UP
8 min | Directors: Alan Smith & Adam Foulkes | 2008 | England
A.T Shank & Son have a bad day at the funeral parlour when a falling boulder flattens their hearse. Emotional and literal pitfalls lie in wait for the odd couple as they make their way cross country with just a coffin for company.
EL EMPLEO
6 min 19 s | Director: Santiago Grasso | 2008 | Argentina
A man on his usual journey to work is thrown into a world where the use of people as objects is a daily occurrence.
THE HEART OF AMOS KLEIN
14 min 41s | Directors: Michal Kranot & Uri Kranot | 2008 | France & Israel
During a heart transplant operation, as he struggles between life and death, Amos Klein returns to significant landmarks over the course of his life. These correspond with key moments in Israeli history. His journey is a reflection on moral corruption, militarism and indoctrination.
MUTO
7 min 26 s | Director: Blu | 2008 | Italy
An ambiguous animation painted on public walls. Made in Buenos Aires and in Baden.
IL NATURALISTA
5 min 36 s | Directors: Giulia Barbera, Gianluca Lo Presti, Federico Parodi, & Michele Tozzi | 2008 | Italy
The naturalist lives in the city. Whenever he can, he jumps into his car and drives out into the country to relax amid the fields and hills, to play his flute and perhaps…
SKHIZEIN
13 min 35 s | Director: Jérémy Clapin | 2008 | France
Having been struck by a 150-ton meteorite, Henry has to adapt to living precisely 91 centimetres from himself.
GARBAGE ANGELS
5 min 30 s | Director: Pierre M. Trudeau | 2008 | Canada
Garbage Angels, odd life forms tell their tale of our society where everything seems to be disposable.
INUKSHUK
8 min 45 s | Director: Camillelvis Théry | 2008 Country: France
On the last polar day, up on the howling ice, a small Inuk man and a mischievous bear see their white world metamorphosed into a huge whale in an ocean of darkness.
GET ANIMATED!
70 years, 70 Oscar® nominations: It’s in a festive spirit that the National Film Board of Canada presents the third edition of Get Animated!, a series of free screenings and activities marking World Animation Day. Watch the NFB’s latest animated films on the big screen, attend special presentations with Oscar®-winner Chris Landreth (Ryan) and twice Oscar®-nominated Cordell Barker (The Cat Came Back)… and enjoy a host of other activities! Don’t miss the NFB’s online film festival programmed exclusively for Get Animated!
For more info, visit nfb.ca/getanimated
