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Directed by Shayne Ehman & Seth Scriver
2013, Canada, 94 min

Opening night introduced by Shayne Ehman and Seth Scriver

Eight years in the making, this masterpiece of weird animation is based on a road trip that visual artists Shayne Ehman and Seth Scriver took hitchhiking across Canada starting from a 7-Eleven near Chilliwack all the way to Toronto. They kept journals and sketches of all kinds of strange people they met along the way. The results are hilarious.

Best Canadian First Feature: 2013 Toronto International Film Festival

Reviews

Meet Skeleton Hat and Bucktooth Cloud. Using flash animation, Scriver and Ehman transform real-life people and settings into surreal abstractions that are crude yet elaborately detailed. Characters range from sweetly creepy to downright gross and dangerous–like St. Nick, a chain smoking fast food obsessed ex-convict who is determined to give the pair Intensive Santa training. You won’t be able to get the brilliant sound track out of your head–Come Over for some Boiled Hot Dogs!

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