NFB CANADA — EXPERIMENTAL DOCUMENTARY ANIMATION

VISUAL STYLE: National Film Board of Canada animation tradition — Norman McLaren, Caroline Leaf, Frédéric Back. Experimental, handmade, technically inventive. Sand on glass, paint on film, scratched directly onto celluloid.

COLOUR PALETTE: Warm, organic, analogue. Sand on glass: warm amber and brown. Paint on glass: fluid, mixing colours, semi-translucent. Generally the warmth of analogue materials.

TEXTURE: The medium is always visible. Sand grains. Paint strokes. Film grain. This is hand-made at the most literal level — you can feel the human presence in every frame.

MOVEMENT: Morphing and transformation are the primary animation tools — one form flows into another without cuts. A face becomes a landscape. A hand becomes a bird. Transition is transformation.

FIGURES: Emerge from and dissolve back into the medium. Never fully formed — always in process.

LIGHT: The light that shines through the medium creates luminosity from within. Images glow because they are lit from behind.

No photographs. No digital animation. No clean edges. Experimental handmade medium throughout — the process is always visible.