Kootenay Moving Pictures aims to annually present films being made in the Kootenays as well as inspiring films from afar. It is a project of Siloën Daley, Creative Director of the Animation Festival of Halifax. Siloën grew up in the Kootenays then studied and practiced art in Halifax for close to 30 years before returning to her childhood home.
How to be at Home • Andrea Dorfman • Halifax, NS • 5m • 2020
Next Screening
A night of new Canadian animated short films
Tivoli Theatre • 1411 Canyon St. Creston, BC
Monday October 23, 2023
6:30pm - Doors open
7:00pm - Screening starts
cost: pay what you choose
This program of new Canadian animated short films from across Canada is suitable for all ages.
Some of the films screening are:
How to Be at Home
Andrea Dorfman • Halifax, NS • 5m • 2020
Filmmaker Andrea Dorfman reunited with poet Tanya Davis to craft this animation on the theme of isolation; a lyrical sequel to their viral hit, 'How to Be Alone'.
Arctic Song
Germaine Arnaktauyok • Igloolik, NU • 6m • 2022
A moving illustration of the traditional creation myth in Inuit culture, depicting the creation of the land, the sea and the sky.
Line By Line: AniJam #3
Produced by Siloën Daley • Various Canadian Artists • 5m • 2023
A collaborative short film similar to an exquisite corpse, a collaborative work first done by surrealist artists to create bizarre and intuitive drawings.
Zeb's Spider
Alicia Eisen & Sophie Jarvis • Montréal, QU • 10m • 2022
A stop-motion cautionary tale that examines the discomfort of the human experience when a superstitious outlook becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Baek-il
Grace An • Montréal, QU • 2m • 2022
The Korean legend of Ungnyeo, a bear reborn as a woman, becomes a percussive and mesmerising riff on the themes of transformation and quarantine.
The Flying Sailor
Amanda Forbis & Wendy Tilby • Calgary, AB • 8m • 2022
An Oscar nominated contemplation of the wonder and fragility of existence inspired by the Halifax Explosion of 1917.
Corvine
Sean McCarron • Vancouver, BC • 11m • 2022
An eccentric boy with trouble fitting in at school finds his happy place.
Tiny
Ritchie Hemphill, Ryan Haché • Vancouver Island, BC • 16m • 2022
A contemplative story from ‘Nakwaxda’xw Elder Colleen Hemphill’s childhood.
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This program is presented with thanks to the Tivoli Theatre, the Kootenay Film Society, the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance, the BC Arts Council and the Animation Festival of Halifax