The National Film Board of Canada presents...

Venue: Exeter Phoenix
Date: 15th February, 11.30am–12.45pm

When the familiar NFB logo appears at the start of a film, we know we are about to watch something heralds a top quality screening. Presenting a selection of some of the world's greatest animation. Introduced by Michael Fukushima, Head of Animation Studio at the National Film Board of Canada.

£7 / £5, Suitable 12+ Book through Exeter Phoenix

Tragic Story with Happy Ending dir. Regina Pessoa / 2005 / 7 mins 43 secs

A little girl finds acceptance in embracing her own difference. This lyrical animated film has the timeless charm of an old fable - one whose subject is difference and self-affirmation.

cNote dir. Christopher Hinton / 2004 / 6 mins 55 secs

Chris Hinton and composer Michael Oesterle leap back and forth between picture and sound. The dynamic movement of Hinton's visual art dances in syncopation with the bold musical strokes of an original modern classical composition. Without words.

Subconscious Password dir. Chris Landreth / 2013 / 11 mins 15 secs

Oscar®-winning director Chris Landreth (Ryan, 2004) uses a common social gaffe—forgetting somebody’s name—as the starting point for a mind-bending romp through the unconscious.The film features a wealth of animated celebrity guests who try to prompt our beleaguered protagonist to remember his old pal's name. Finally, he realizes he must surrender to his predicament and jump head-first into his subconscious to find the answer.

The Danish Poet dir. Torril Kove / 2006 /15 mins 04 secs

This Oscar®-winning short follows Kasper, a poet whose creative well has run dry, on a holiday to Norway to meet the famous writer Sigrid Undset. Kasper attempts to answer some pretty big questions. As Kasper's quest for inspiration unfolds, it appears that a series of seemingly unrelated factors might play important roles in the big scheme of things after all.

Jeu dir. Georges Schwizgebel / 2006 / 3 mins 54 secs

In this animated short, the viewer is placed in a landscape whose scenery constantly morphs and mutates and the helter-skelter world evokes the chaos of modern life.

Wild Life dir Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby/ 2011 / 13 mins 30 secs

This animated short tells the story of a dapper young remittance man who is sent from England to Alberta to attempt ranching in 1909. It soon becomes clear that nothing in his refined upbringing has prepared him for the harsh conditions of the New World. A film about the beauty of the prairie, the pangs of homesickness and the folly of living dangerously out of context.

Sunday/Dimanche dir. Patrick Doyon / 2011 / 9 mins 50 secs

This Oscar®-nominated animated short is a tale about life as seen through the eyes of a child. In keeping with their Sunday tradition, after mass, a family flocks to grandma and grandpa’s house, where the chaotic discussion soon begins to resemble a raucous gathering of crows on power lines. On this particular grey Sunday, a young boy drops a coin on some nearby train tracks out of sheer boredom. Picking the coin up after a train has run over it, he discovers to his astonishment that an amazing transformation has taken place.

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