ENDLESS COOKIE

Through a series of vignettes – some tragic, some funny, all a little bizarre – this animated feature documentary explores the complex bond between two half brothers, one Indigenous, one white, spanning bustling 1980s Toronto to the present day isolated First Nations community of Shamattawa.

ENDLESS COOKIE is an imaginatively animated family portrait of the contrasting upbringings between two white and Indigenous half-brothers, in a humorous oral history. As they reminisce into the recording microphone, the threads of their stories are punctuated, interrupted, or else hijacked by charismatic (and humorously animated) members of the extended family, including nine kids and ten dogs, who add to the narrative by indulging in their own reveries. The result is an exploration of identity, race, and Indigenous resistance to colonization within a First Nations community; an impressionistic and often surreal depiction of family; and a lived-in documentary of the creative process.

 

Screened with a short film

LOO AND BEHOLD

2 minutes Canada (Animation / Alberta)

A series of chaotic events unfold in a single bathroom.