Allyson Mitchell

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So Over the Rainbow
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So Over the Rainbow

Aug 12, 1997
While on a road trip, a lesbian and a gay man give voice to the love/hate relationship they have with the queer community.
Kill Road
1

Kill Road

Jan 01, 2003
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.
Drama
Breakfast with Gus
3.5

Breakfast with Gus

Jan 01, 1997
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.
Comedy
Chow Down
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Chow Down

Jan 01, 1997
A chubby girl tries to find the perfect outfit for the big concert. Trouble is, nothing fits.
Music
Making Ladies
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Making Ladies

Aug 14, 2010
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.
Documentary
Don't Bug Me
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Don't Bug Me

Jan 01, 1996
Messy lives. Messy relationship. Messy sock drawers. This short and sweet animation will show you how to tidy it all up in less than one minute.
Animation
So Over the Rainbow
1

So Over the Rainbow

Aug 12, 1997
While on a road trip, a lesbian and a gay man give voice to the love/hate relationship they have with the queer community.
Chow Down
1

Chow Down

Jan 01, 1997
A chubby girl tries to find the perfect outfit for the big concert. Trouble is, nothing fits.
Music
Chow Down
1

Chow Down

Jan 01, 1997
A chubby girl tries to find the perfect outfit for the big concert. Trouble is, nothing fits.
Music
Chow Down
1

Chow Down

Jan 01, 1997
A chubby girl tries to find the perfect outfit for the big concert. Trouble is, nothing fits.
Music
Glitter
1

Glitter

Jan 01, 2003
As two twits dance their fears away at a roadside farmers market, via costumery and choreography, they bring lesbian glamour where it was not ever.
Music
Glitter
1

Glitter

Jan 01, 2003
As two twits dance their fears away at a roadside farmers market, via costumery and choreography, they bring lesbian glamour where it was not ever.
Music
Glitter
1

Glitter

Jan 01, 2003
As two twits dance their fears away at a roadside farmers market, via costumery and choreography, they bring lesbian glamour where it was not ever.
Music
Cup Cake
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Cup Cake

Jan 01, 1998
Cup Cake is chubby eye candy. She takes us on a quest for the perfect dessert. She is proof that eating is sexy. Cupcake talks without shame, about desserts that she loves.
Comedy
Cup Cake
1

Cup Cake

Jan 01, 1998
Cup Cake is chubby eye candy. She takes us on a quest for the perfect dessert. She is proof that eating is sexy. Cupcake talks without shame, about desserts that she loves.
Comedy
Cup Cake
1

Cup Cake

Jan 01, 1998
Cup Cake is chubby eye candy. She takes us on a quest for the perfect dessert. She is proof that eating is sexy. Cupcake talks without shame, about desserts that she loves.
Comedy
Cup Cake
1

Cup Cake

Jan 01, 1998
Cup Cake is chubby eye candy. She takes us on a quest for the perfect dessert. She is proof that eating is sexy. Cupcake talks without shame, about desserts that she loves.
Comedy
Kill Road
1

Kill Road

Jan 01, 2003
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.
Drama
My Life in 5 Minutes
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My Life in 5 Minutes

Jan 01, 2000
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.
Documentary
My Life in 5 Minutes
1

My Life in 5 Minutes

Jan 01, 2000
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.
Documentary
My Life in 5 Minutes
1

My Life in 5 Minutes

Jan 01, 2000
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.
Documentary
My Life in 5 Minutes
1

My Life in 5 Minutes

Jan 01, 2000
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.
Documentary
Melty Kitty
1

Melty Kitty

Aug 17, 2007
Suicide is painless, it brings on many changes, and I can take or leave it if I please.
Pink Eyed Pet
1

Pink Eyed Pet

Jan 01, 2002
Sometimes topical treatments aren't enough to cure love's infections.
Romance
Candy Kisses
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Candy Kisses

Jan 01, 1999
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.
Romance
Unca Trans
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Unca Trans

Aug 17, 2007
Set in an agrarian future, Unca Trans is a short animated Super 8 film in which the title character pontificates about gender theory and activism back in the 2000s.
Animation
Unca Trans
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Unca Trans

Aug 17, 2007
Set in an agrarian future, Unca Trans is a short animated Super 8 film in which the title character pontificates about gender theory and activism back in the 2000s.
Animation
Bon Bon
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Bon Bon

Jan 01, 2001
A candyland town kicks up its sugary heels for a midday parade.
Animation
Hers Is Still a Dank Cave: Crawling Toward a Queer Horizon
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A stunning virtuoso turn from these two partners in life and art. A home movie where the library musings and theory shuffles are re-rooted in domestic space, in relationship. The tape insists that artmaking, and even the utopias it conjures, cannot be separated from the way we love, eat, or wash the dishes. It celebrates the hand-made, the make-shift, the provisional (no more monuments! unless they’re made of cardboard and felt and wool), and everywhere there is ingenious invention and a generous good humour, particularly when the artists don flesh suits and hoist a giant-sized sharpie to underline their fave utopia reading bits from the oversized texts that surround them.
Animation
Bad Brownies
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Bad Brownies

Jan 01, 1997
Former Brownies recall their time in Girl Guides as seven and eight year olds.
Documentary