Is There Paradaïz with TheNFB in Part Two, When Bread Will Walk Steals The Show?

Surreal migration meets flour-dusted apocalypse in this second NFB spotlight. When Bread Will Walk is the definitive highlight of the shorts program, we’re sure that you’ll reconsider buying Wonder Bread too.

National Film Board of Canada LOGOIn part two of my look at the National Film Board of Canada shorts playing at the Victoria Film Festival,  I turn my attention to one art piece and one very creative riff on the zombie genre. I highly recommend checking out Bread Will Walk, and hope it hits streaming soon. And with the former, there’s more than an existential crisis going on as an individual tries to make sense of chaos theory. After fleeing one world to live in another, this is a work people need to see to be understood. Continue reading “Is There Paradaïz with TheNFB in Part Two, When Bread Will Walk Steals The Show?”

[VIFF 2018] A Look Into the Animated Mirror, Darkly with The NFB

National Film Board of CanadaBy Ed Sum
(The Vintage Tempest)

The Vancouver International Film Festival runs from September 27 to October 12th, and this year’s selections from The National Film Board of Canada ranges from horror to introspective to humour. Of the latter, Alison Snowden and David Fine’s Animal Behaviour (see review here) gets a home-side engagement, and Jay Cardinal Villeneuve’s Holy Angels has a big screen debut.

In the animated front, the following shorts are making their BC premiere and are worth noting:
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