Concordia University

The Clock is Ticking transports its audience into a collage of creative multimedia animation. This short animated film explores the passage of time. Angst grows stronger as Emily questions her purpose in a waiting room, surrounded by strangers with a similar destiny. At the sight of a teddy bear sitting alone on a chair, Emily can’t help but identify with the plushie. She dives deep into her subconscious, reliving her past and expanding into a potential future doomed to destruction. Time doesn’t wait, and the clock keeps ticking. Faced with this realization, Emily snaps out of her dream, deeply changed. She grabs the plushie and escapes the waiting room in a hysterical demonstration of freedom. Emily will no longer wait !

As Carmela continues preparing for war, she faces challenges in recruiting the final member of her army.

What would it be like if people played life the way kids do? Play tries to answer this question by giving you a glimpse of Frank's strangely organized and somewhat melancholic hand-crafted world.

A jockey rides off course and the horse race soon devolves into a disorienting detour. Cut-outs, collage and cel animation combine on a multiplane camera to create a barrage of unexpected environments.

Concordia University’s graduating class of 1975 (and with them, the dubious hairstyles of a half-century ago) gets chopped up and tossed around in an eerie stroll through the corridors of memory.

Following an exchange of text messages with her mother about her newly adopted dog Abby, a young woman sees her experience as a transracial adoptee reflected in this adoption.

A surreal, horrific and disturbing film that explores the sensation of waking up.

In 2011, the people of Cherán, Michoacán, rose up to reclaim their forest and community, fighting illegal loggers, cartels, and systemic oppression. Guided by P’urhépecha traditions, their autonomy weaves resistance into daily life and the natural landscape.