REframed NDN Animation Shorts Program
A program of Animated shorts from Canada curated by Terril Calder. One of the foremost Métis media artists practicing in Canada today, Terril is a multi-disciplinary creator born in Fort Frances, Ontario, and currently living in Toronto. Calder’s Métis lineage is from the Red River Settlement and the Orkney Cree Métis. While her current practice is focused on stop-motion projects, which she writes, directs, crafts and animates, Calder also has an extensive background in performance art, visual art and media art.
A Boy and His Loss
A Boy and his Loss is the story of a boy who was so utterly consumed by grief, that he almost ran out of life.
Collector
A pair of unlikely travellers encounter a young man on the highway who seems to have forgotten that he can be seen.
Grape Soda in the Parking Lot
What if every language that had been lost to English -- every word, every syllable -- grew up out of the ground in flowers? Taqralik Partridge’s grandmother’s Scottish Gaelic and her father’s Inuktitut unfold in memories of her family, of pain, and of love.
Heart Like a Pow Wow
Heart Like A Pow Wow explores the depths of grief from an Anishinaabe perspective of love and family. Viewers are called to witness Spirit as they shift to physical form while embodying the love that precedes grief and inevitably foreshadows it.
Premonition
Premonition acknowledges the major shifts that happened when European traders and settlers began to come into the territory.
The Fake Calendar
A neon glimpse into a personal world within an urban landscape. From FOMO to JOMO, The Fake Calendar is an artist’s expression of how people come up with interesting and creative ways to avoid social functions in favour of their own private space.
The Weight
In a personal reflection, Craig Commanda talks to us about the effects of depression on his life and the journey to get out of it.
Wâhkôhtowin (All My Relations)
The power of stories, told over many nights, over many years, through all the languages across the world, are encapsulated in an intimate story between a grandmother and her children’s children on a clear winter night in the teepee.
XO RAD Magical
XO Rad Magical is a personal lyrical poem about the daily struggle of living with schizophrenia. This psychedelic and hypnotic film shows that there is beauty in the brains of those who are at war with themselves.