This animated short looks at the building of Canada's transcontinental railroad with wit and whimsy. ENGINE 371 illustrates the struggle humans have with nature and how this fundamental tension united a country.

As beautiful as it is haunting, this animated short film paints a vivid portrait of two strangers intimately linked by the shared ceilings, floors and plumbing of their apartments. When an unexpected problem arises, these comfortable connections are compromised. Wendy Tilby uses a painstaking animation process involving painting on glass and stop-action filming.. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

Based on a song by the Great Western Orchestra, this musical animation tells of the surprise that Pete the North West Mounted Police officer feels as he is awakened in the badlands by a varmint band and observes cacti line dancing.

Award-winning artist and illustrator Howie Shia marries traditional and digital media with a mish-mash score of jazz, electronics and sampling to create an urban fairy tale that sets to reclaim the contemporary world as fertile ground for epic adventure and romance. This is not a story about humble beginnings, but about two school kids with ambition and love so potent that they reinvent the landscape as endless canvases; infinite mazes.

When an artist falls in love with a plastic surgeon, all bets are off! Their relationship, told through beautiful, illustrated love letters, raises issues of medical ethics, self-esteem, the embrace of our so-called "flaws," and what love looks like. Ultimately, FLAWED is less about whether girl can get along with boy than whether girl can accept herself, imperfections and all.. This film is both an exquisite tribute to the art of animation and a loving homage to storyboarding, a time-honored way of rendering scenes while pointing the way to the dramatic arc of the tale.. Nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy.

Fusing elements of Kafka and Kubrick, CATERPILLARPLASTY is a prescient, grotesque sci-fi satire that lifts plastic surgery to another level. The film is set in a state-of-the-art clinic that mirrors a twisted cultural and economic system, a world where advanced technologies have cultivated new standards of beauty and prestige. As aggressive body modifications become an increasingly popular fad, the unnatural becomes natural, giving rise to a new kind of ostensible beauty that is costing us our individuality-and with it, our humanity.

A film based on Franz Kafka's short story "The Metamorphosis," the story is told through the animation of beach sand on a piece of glass. An imaginative sound track and innovative artwork combine to recreate a Kafkaesque world of alienation and guilt.. Winner of the Golden Dragon at the Krakow Film Festival.

This Oscar-nominated animated short is a magical tale about life as seen through the eyes of a child. In keeping with their Sunday tradition, after mass a family flocks to grandma and grandpa's house, where the chaotic discussion soon begins to resemble a raucous gathering of crows on power lines.. The local factory has shut its doors and, naturally, the adults can't stop fretting about their money woes. On this particular grey Sunday, a young boy drops a coin on some nearby train tracks out of sheer boredom. Picking the coin up after a train has run over it, he discovers to his astonishment that an amazing transformation has taken place.. Winner of Best Short Film at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Who is Monsieur Pug? A dog with bad cholesterol and high blood pressure! And a dog who loves his pie and ice cream. Who relaxes by making origami. In other words, definitely not your ordinary pooch!. He is also convinced he's the target in a vast conspiracy, and pretending to be a pet, the better to hide from his pursuers. Is Monsieur Pug even a real dog to begin with?. A delirious fable about a particular brand of modern madness-that brought on by the omnipresence of smartphones in our lives-MONSIEUR PUG is directed with verve by Oscar-nominated filmmaker, Janet Perlman.

New York, 1905. Visionary inventor Nikola Tesla makes one last appeal to J.P. Morgan, his onetime benefactor. THE TESLA WORLD LIGHT is a tragic fantasy about the father of alternating current, inspired by real events such as the inventor's run of bad luck as a businessman and his affection for a pet bird, which he loves "like a man loves a woman." Tesla's words to the banker form the backdrop of this moving film about the man who blended science and art in his attempts to create the utopia of unlimited energy for all.

This Oscar-nominated animated short tells the story of a dapper young remittance man who is sent from England to Alberta to attempt ranching in 1909. However, his affection for badminton, bird watching and liquor leaves him little time for wrangling cattle. It soon becomes clear that nothing in his refined upbringing has prepared him for the harsh conditions of the New World. A film about the beauty of the prairie, the pangs of homesickness and the folly of living dangerously out of context.. Nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the Academy Awards, The Annie's and The Genie Awards.

This short animation is a zany version of the classic fairy tale, with the leading role played by a mistreated, romantic penguin, with hilarious results. Cinderella Penguin loses her magic flipper as she runs to meet her midnight deadline, but all ends well when Prince Charming finds the right webbed foot and the nasty step-family is brought to heel.. An Oscar-nominee for Best Animated Short Film.