The National Film Board of Canada is backing four 3D shorts at TIFF, this being a new genre of film for the event.
The titles, which vary in scope as well as those who are involved in creating them, like Oscar winner Chris Landreth, will be a new venture for the NFB’s efforts.
Subconscious Password from Landreth is an interesting and playful glimpse into the mind of a man struggling to avoid the embarrassment of forgetting a fellow party guest’s name.
Impromptu is directed by Bruce Alcock, who takes his inspiration from Chopin’s eponymous composition and pays tribute to the moments of beautiful chaos that can spring suddenly from the mundane.
Theodore Ushev’s acclaimed 20th century trilogy concludes with Gloria Victoria, a brilliant fusion of 3D and Russian constructivist-styled animation.
And finally, Concordia graduate Claire Blanchet directs The End of Pinky, a visually stunning stereoscopic animation adapted from Heather O’Neills eponymous slice of Montreal noir.
NFB producer Michael Fukushima, who is behind “Impromptu” and “The End of Pinky,” told The Canadian Press, “It’s quite remarkable to have this many of our stereoscopic 3D films in a single festival… I think we were lucky this year. The timing was great because we had four (shorts) and they were all pretty strong. TIFF decide to take them all and the fact that there are four makes it much easier for the programmers to say, ‘OK. We’re going to compel audiences to pop the glasses on at a certain point for 15 or 20 minutes as opposed to asking an audience to pop the glasses on for five minutes in the course of a short program.”
TIFF runs from September 5-15.
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