Bio

Lansing Bruce Robertson is a University of Oklahoma Film School graduate who some how wound up in Winnipeg, Manitoba as a professional taiko drummer/instructor with the Prairie Music Award winning Fubuki Daiko.  After a near 20 year break from filmmaking he has begun making animated video shorts and experimental films which have screened at numerous festivals and venues such as the Dalhousie Art Gallery in Halifax, NS; the Ottawa International Animation Festival, Festivale du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal; and Strange Beauty in Durham, NC.

Works

BIRD SONGS of DOOM

  • 2015
  • Lansing Bruce Robertson

It’s doomsday and the birds are singing merrily. Turns out they’re probably up to something. Thanks a lot birds.

BIRD SONGS of DOOM

SLEEP of REASON

  • 2019
  • Lansing Bruce Robertson

According to Goya: “The Sleep of Reason Begets Monsters.” Staring at the TV probably doesn’t help either. A short animated film about ‘us’ and ‘them’; media; and the contemporary Middle East. Sounds serious!

SLEEP of REASON

Another Statement about Society

  • 2014
  • Lansing Bruce Robertson

Behold the salvation the American socio-economic system has prepared for you.

Another Statement about Society

Dino-Orange (How Birds Fly)

  • 2007
  • Lansing Bruce Robertson

"Dino-Orange" uses stop-motion to weave a retro sci-fi tale.

Dino-Orange (How Birds Fly)