Interoculus

Two prisoners are trapped in a void. Trying separately to escape, they discover each other and have to overcome their fear in order to connect and find a way out. Or do they really discover themselves? Filmmaker Greg Labute renders an austere nightmare world using the SANDDE™ stereoscopic animation drawing tool and a dark, slightly perverse imagination. Without words. This animated short was made for Hothouse 6, the NFB's program for emerging filmmakers, whose central theme was "Inside Out".

As a young woman finds herself lost in daydreams while clumsily performing the tradition of making pierogies, she invokes the presence of her grandmother, who guides her through the messy ritual. The film is a fusion of hand-drawn animation, folk art and stereoscopic drawings made in space, by Calgary illustrator and filmmaker Kiarra Albina. Without words. This animated short was made for Hothouse 6, the NFB's program for emerging filmmakers, whose central theme was "Inside Out".

A simple film with basic elements combined together, showing a normal thing occur in a point of view, off to the left-hand-side-of-regular approach. This animated short was made for Hothouse 4, the NFB's program for emerging filmmakers, whose central theme was "Chance Encounter".