2014 Dawson City International Short Film Festival | Page 21
8 PM SUNDAY APRIL 20 ~ THE BIG FINISH
Yellow Sticky Notes | Canadian Anijam
What Was a Wild Night
Blotto 649
Portraits from Varangerfjord
Fur Harvesters NWT
Mila
Mohawk Midnight Runners
Ordinary Gold
Yellow Sticky Notes | Canadian Anijam
8 min, animation
Jeff Chiba Stearns
For the first time in Canadian history, 15
of Canada’s most celebJrated independent
animators have come together to create a
collaborative animated film using only 4x6 inch
yellow sticky notes, a black pen and animation
meditation.
Fur Harvesters NWT, 8 min, documentary
Pablo Saravanja/Jay Bulckaert,, NWT
Based just outside of Hay River, Andrew Stanley
runs his trapline where he harvests lynx,
wolverine, marten, wolf, coyote and other fur
bearing animals that fetch top price at the Fur
Harvesters Auction.
What Was a Wild Night, 5 min, animation
Sarah Pupo, Québec
What Was a Wild Night was made collaboratively
by artist Sarah Pupo (Montreal, Quebec) and
musician Nina Nielsen (Oslo, Norway).
Using paint and paper cutouts on glass,
characters were created and scenes improvised
in direct response to the soundtrack. The result
is reminiscent of a live drawing populated by
meandering psychedelia and dark forms that
transform, vanish and rise again.
Mila, 17 min, comedy
Kristina Wagenbauer, Canada/Switzerland
Mila, a 10 year old girl, is working day and night
on a very special gift featuring her unknowing
family.
Blotto 649, 3 min, experimental
Mike Maryniuk, Manitoba
A fantastic journey of colour using 6490
photographs of spin art micro paintings.
2014 Dawson City International Short Film Festival
Mohawk Midnight Runners, 17 min, drama
Zoe Hopkins, Ontario
This is a comedic story about camaraderie and
release that shows Grant finding freedom from
his darkness and love for life... by running naked
on the highway.
Portraits from Varangerfjord
13 min, documentary
Egil Pederson, Norway
A feel-good documentary filmed in Nesseby,
Finnmark, in Northern Norway. The film portrays
several people that have a strong connection to
nature, to old Sámi traditions, and to the small
community they live in.
Ordinary Gold, 9 min, comedy
Brian Lye, BC
A quiet, narrated, black and white, slow and funny
film about fictional residents of Dawson City,
Yukon.
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