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• SPAM: No More Plastic Humyns! I Want Affective Indoctrination.

  If existing media systems and networks maintain and monetize off of colonialism, exploitation, state-sanctioned violence, and follow patriarchal operation manuals, then how do practices intent on resisting these motives...

• Calling All Queers: A Spotlight on NFB Animation

  Written, animated, and directed by Canadian Abenaki artist Diane Obomsawin, I Like Girls (2016) tells the stories of four queer women and their first loves: “For them, discovering that they're attracted to...

• Calling All Queers: A Spotlight on NFB Animation

  In I Like Girls, when Marie goes to live with her girlfriend’s family, her mother shows up to take her away: “She sent me to live in a farm...

• Calling All Queers: A Spotlight on NFB Animation

  Estonian-born artist Chintis Lundgren, who now lives in Crotia, describes her work as having a “light, absurdist tone along with distinct anthropomorphic characters.”⁸Manivald (2017), is the story of a young male fox coming to terms...

• Calling All Queers: A Spotlight on NFB Animation

  Manivald has a new-found swagger and confidence until he discovers Toomas in his mother’s bed. This prompts him to move out and go looking for Toomas only to discover...

• Calling All Queers: A Spotlight on NFB Animation

  In A Short Film about Tegan & Sara (2018), Asian-Canadian artist Ann Marie Fleming⁹draws stick figures on brightly coloured backgrounds to illustrate the career of Calgary born musicians and identical twins Tegan and Sara Quin....

• Calling All Queers: A Spotlight on NFB Animation

  The animation draws attention (forgive the pun) to the duo’s Safer Spaces Program,which aims to make their shows a safe space for everyone: “You’re not going to feel like...

• Calling All Queers: A Spotlight on NFB Animation

  Canadian animator Shira Avni’s ten-minute animated film John and Michael(2004) celebrates the lives of two gay men with Down’s Syndrome. Typical of her work, the film addresses“questions of difference and social...

• Calling All Queers: A Spotlight on NFB Animation

  We hear the story from a third person perspective about how the couple initially grew up together in a group home. One night they pushed their beds together...

• Calling All Queers: A Spotlight on NFB Animation

  Canadian documentarian and artist Lynne Fernie’s²¹seventeen-minute Apples and Oranges(2003)is the longest of the five films I have selected and was created with a children’s audience in mind. As noted in the synopsis,...