Down Escalation

Beggar boy Krabat is lured to apprentice for an evil, one-eyed sorcerer. With a number of others, he works at the sorcerer's mill while learning black magic. Every Christmas, one of the lads has to face the master in a magical duel, where the boy never stands a chance because the master is the only person allowed to use a secret spell.

The short takes as its inspiration Bottom's contemplation on the "dream" he has experienced in the middle acts of Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream", in which his head is transformed into that of an ass and the Fairy Queen Titania is made to fall in love with him. Shakespeare's "Dream" has long been the most visually attractive play to adapt, and the transfer to animation opens up possibilities set designers could only dream of. Canemaker's mastery of the art and his immense creativity make this short quite a ride, exploring a few of the darker undertones in Shakespeare's text that are often excised or simply ignored.

A prairie landscape undergoes a metamorphosis: rural idyll to over-urbanized dystopia. Director Anne Koizumi laments the changing face of her hometown of Calgary in this critique of the bacteria-like spread of suburbia and exurbia. This film was made as part of the third edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

A story about a caterpillar undergoing metaphorphosis in a too-small cocoon.

A knight framed for a tragic crime teams with a scrappy, shape-shifting teen to prove his innocence.

First year student stop-motion film on the theme "Metamorphosis" - A regular apple is given human properties against its will, and experiences the horrors of being and changing.

Tale - this is what is everyone from childhood. Give yourself a chance to once again return to the magical world created by Alexander Pushkin. Adventures brave Tsarevich Guidon, beautiful Swan-Tsar Saltan reminded of that love, loyalty and the spirit always wins!

Aquarium

Computer animation featuring a running figure that morphs into various elements. Originally commissioned for Hyundai Sejong Motor Gallery, Seoul, Korea and a special edit was shown in Times Square, New York, USA.

L'horizon de Bene

A surreal meditation on chronic illness and anxiety, Prion follows a character's struggle with self-acceptance as their fears manifest in the form of a sickly, white deer.

The Third Eye

A dream-like animated short. A woman cries, and her tears undergo a beautiful metamorphosis.

Saison mutante

Under great pressure, humans undergo similar steps of metamorphism.

Jacques Blanchot loses everything: his wife, his home, his job. He gradually alienates himself from the world around him. Until the day when the owner of a pet shop takes him in.

In the Seventeenth Century, while Hungary is fighting the Turks, the population of a small village in the Carpathian Mountains faces the evil Countess Elizabeth Bathory, accused of drinking and bathing in blood of virgin women.

A portrait of a woman recovering from cosmetic surgery in Miami.

Earl Bassett's celebrity after defeating the Graboid attack against the town of Perfection has proved short-lived, until he's recruited by a Mexican oil company whose workers have found more than they bargained for under the soil.

A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of human consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from Native American shamans, he explores these altered states of cognizance and finds that memory, time, and reality itself are states of mind.