MATIERICA

The Ravens

The Ravens was the couple's first sand animation film and the prelude to a unique work.

1967

Accordion

Exploration of the connections between sex, love and technology.

2004

The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein

The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein is a 1992 short animated documentary directed by Joyce Borenstein about her father, the Canadia

1992

The Bleacher

The disappearance of her sock at a local laundromat sends a fragile Rita over the edge. Hellbent on finding it, she searches deep and gets sucked into

2024

The Lost Season

As the world experiences its final winter, desperate measures to hold onto the season awaken a radical labor consciousness.

2024

Solitaire

Renaud is 85 years old and lives in Paris with his trusty wheelchair/caregiver. He's a loner, stuck in his ways, uncomplainingly trapped for years now

2020

Octane

A man's street race through hell and back parallels the Black experience in America.

2018

Bug Diner

A dissatisfied marriage, a secret crush, and workplace fantasies come to a head in a diner run by a mole with a hot ass.

2024

Jump

The incessant self-transcendence of man.

1985

Bob's Funeral

Searching for the root of generational trauma, the director takes a camera into his estranged grandfather’s funeral.

2024

Various Loops

Beckett created a significant number of animation loops which display his playfulness and also evidence his process as many are variations of ideas an

Rest in Peace

After a tragic incident strikes a happy town, their beloved governor knows just how to fix it.

2021

Two Bagatelles

Norman McLaren instructs Grant Munro on the movements he is to make. The film technique for Two Bagatelles is pixillation, where the actor is animated

1953

Moth

A wandering through the primal emotions of birth, motherhood, body, nature, metamorphosis and dance.

2019

Sex Ed by God

A girl is being projected on a screen while a pair of disembodied lips (“God”) rambles about sex. At the same time, a boy and a man look at the girl.

2017

Manual Man

Manual Man follows a progression of men whose bodies transform into furniture and appliances after reading various instruction manuals.

2019

Samuel de Champlain: Québec 1603

Footage of Québec City locations and the artwork of well-known Quebec animator Frédéric Back are used to tell the tale of Champlain’s life in New Fran

1964

Dreams in the Field

A boy looking for his cat to the edge of time, where who's dead disappears and who's alive let fly. Childhood illusions dissolve on the wheat field an

2020

Eye for an Eye

A one-eyed pirate captain tries repeatedly to win a treasure, always with a new team of one-eyed pirates like him.

2020

The Eighth Day of Creation

At the end of the eighth day the Creator has taken refuge in a dark dungeon . Obsessed with transcending he manipulates life to the extreme and tries

2003