
Allyson Mitchell
2021Breakfast with Gus
Siobhan Devine
Allyson Mitchell, Jane Farrow
A cat's eye view of Gus' attempt to get attention, and, most importantly, breakfast, from his busy humans. Eventually Gus does what any self respecting cat would do and takes matters into his own paws.
Breakfast with Gus
Candy Kisses
Allyson Mitchell
Two girls going through a break-up try to avoid bitter drama and embrace the sweetness of why they liked each other in the first place. Through stop-motion animation their hearts burst and candy tears fill the screen to perform a sad crazy dance.
Candy Kisses
If Anyone Should Happen to Get In My Way
Christina Zeidler, Allyson Mitchell
Christina Zeidler
This animation was shot from hi-con coloured Lomo photographs of a girl in various animal states, licking her wounds. A meditation on female anger.
If Anyone Should Happen to Get In My Way
Kill Road
Christina Zeidler
Ali Soles, Deirdre Logue
Enduring a dysfunctional family requires stamina, wit and sharp survival instincts, as demonstrated in this anguished ode to family peculiarity. A pixelated tale of a girl whose off-kilter parents become lost in a mission to nurse a raccoon - an unfortunate road-kill victim.
Kill Road
Making Ladies
Dilia Narduzzi, Lesley Loksi Chan
Allyson Mitchell, Dilia Narduzzi
A documentary about maximalist Toronto media artist and sculptor Allyson Mitchell as she preps her Ladies Sasquatch installation – a fake fur creature wonderland. The large-bodied sasquatch ladies are feminist exclamation marks and icons, celebrating their “different bodies,” as the artist explains in a winning voice-over that drives the movie. Thrift store accumulations and found handicrafts are repurposed, blurring ideas of craft and art, high and low. How to turn what is overlooked, discarded and without value, or even feared and despised, and put these bodies at the centre of a new conversation? Mitchell’s work provides a blueprint for how to love our monsters.
Making Ladies
My Life in 5 Minutes
Allyson Mitchell
The autobiopic "My Life in 5 Minutes" tells a life story with a bittersweet song, animation and family snaps. Some photos hold painful or awkward members for the artist; through computer animation, she enlarges her own eyes to blink the pain away.
My Life in 5 Minutes
Lesbian National Parks and Services Presents: Endangered Species
Shawna Dempsey, Lorri Millan
Nadin Gilroy, Hannah Godfrey
Lesbian National Parks and Services' Endangered Species are a series of public service announcements, created by the indefatigable Lesbian Rangers, who serve the lesbian wilds from dawn to dusk and well beyond.
Lesbian National Parks and Services Presents: Endangered Species