Robert Vilar

New York, 1905. Visionary inventor Nikola Tesla makes one last appeal to J.P. Morgan, his onetime benefactor.

The First Winter is the story of Portuguese man's first winter in Winnipeg.

A completely hand-made historical micro-epic about the final minutes in the life of Winnipeg's doomed Second World War hero, Andrew Mynarski (1916-1944). Combining wartime aviation melodrama with classical and avant-garde animation techniques (including stop-motion, silhouettes, bleaching, scratching, hand-painting and rubbing letratone patterns directly on the celluloid) Mynarski Death Plummet is a psychedelic photo-chemical war picture on the theme of self-sacrifice, immortality and jellyfish.

This deaf-and-dumb young man who is called ‘the Goose’ by his scoffing acquaintances makes the most psychedelic of journeys by fax machine. Like a goose leaving for the sun in the winter, this anti-hero is looking for somewhere else to find his own voice. Absurdist drama that makes eager use of stop-motion carpet figures, silent-film references, computer animation, video and arcade games.

Only the electrifying courage and love of Québec nationalism can save the citizens of Winnipeg from committing mass suicide.

Only the electrifying courage and love of Québec nationalism can save the citizens of Winnipeg from committing mass suicide.

FM YOUTH is about being young and being French in English Canada. Three Franco-Manitoban friends, Natasha, Charlotte and Alexis, hang out one last time before Natasha and Charlotte leave their tight knit francophone community in Winnipeg in favour of Montreal, Quebec.