Party girl Annie and Gordon, a homeless man, travel through a remote subway tunnel to a different time; to a world where two children are held captive and tormented by bizarre figures. A multilayered animated film which brings to life the dark history of the Canadian residential school system, in which – as recently as the 1990s – First Nations children were being indoctrinated and estranged from their parents and culture.
by
Terril Calder
Canada 2016
English
15’ · Colour
Joseph Boyden
The Métis media artist was born in Fort Frances, Canada and currently lives in Toronto. She studied fine art at the University of Manitoba with a major in drawing and a minor in film. Her work focuses on stop-motion animation and includes SNIP which screened in the 2017 Berlinale Generation where it received a Special Mention. In 2019, the Winnipeg Film Group presented the first retrospective of her work; in 2020, she was honoured with her first film festival retrospective at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.
Filmography (selection)2009 Canned Meat; short animation 2011 The Gift; short animation 2013 Repercussions; short animation 2014 The Lodge 2016 SNIP; short animation 2021 Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics; short animation
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2022
Terril Calder Films