Director
Spectacle is proud to present HEAD SPACE, a showcase of animated works exploring dimensions both interior and outlying. Featuring an extremely talented and creative group working in a diverse array of styles, the shorts wander through strange and sometimes sketchy landscapes, including alternate-universe appliance stores, the ramblings of Charles Manson, environmental catastrophes in the Dutch style of painting, and a houseplant’s musings. Some, like Sally Cruikshank’s Make Me Psychic, are established classics; others feature newer animators working in looping GIF format, presented away from the small screen’s momentary pleasures to fully appreciate the art that it is. Occasionally gross, often beautiful, and always interesting, HEAD SPACE is a sampler of the thoughts happening inside and out of each frame.
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Jessica is stuck in the house with the baby. A mundane domestic tale, full of the awkward and surreal.
Animation
Jessica is stuck in the house with the baby. A mundane domestic tale, full of the awkward and surreal.
Writer
Jessica is stuck in the house with the baby. A mundane domestic tale, full of the awkward and surreal.
Director
Jessica is stuck in the house with the baby. A mundane domestic tale, full of the awkward and surreal.
This hilarious, grotesque, and unique adult animated feature chronicles visual artists Seth Scriver and Shayne Ehman’s trans-Canadian road trip as they encounter dull violence, rampant consumerism and unbridled eccentricity in small towns all over this wide, weird country.
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Landscapes is a series of short animated scenes featuring various figures interacting in a natural landscape. Images and sound created in Amiga.
Director
A colourful tripped out animated landscape filled with catchy songs, eyeball kicks, goofball characters, and a great variety of babies. This 16mm film was created using over 1,000 hand painted cut-outs and paper puppets with paper backgrounds.
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An “epic” adventure and a magical environmental fairy tale. Amy Lockhart uses cutouts, drawings and collage (captured and manipulated as digital multi-plane animation) to conjure up her whimsical world. This film was made as part of the second edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.
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This featurette stars a young Miss Edmonton Teenburger 1983, who escapes into a world of fantasy, as she deals with the pressures of youth.
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Amy Lockhart,1999