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    • (ab) NORMAL

    (ab) NORMAL

    • 1995
    • 00h 20m 00s
    • Wrik Mead
    • Rent $200
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    Synopsis

    "In ‘(ab)NORMAL’ the relationship spectrum, from paranoid avoidance to smothering and overwhelming attention, is traced through four pixilated sketches." - Toronto International Film Festival

    Categories

    • LGBTQ2S+,
    • Animation,
    • Body,
    • Experimental,
    • Sexuality

    Shooting Format

    • 16 mm

    Languages

    • English

    Additional Details

    • Colour,
    • Sound

    Available Subtitle

    • None

    Region

    • Central Canada

    Screening Formats

    • 3/4 tape (umatic),
    • 16 mm

    Credits

    • Director: Wrik Mead

    Provided By

    • CFMDC Logo

    More By Wrik Mead

    Milkman & Milk Bath

    • 2010
    • Wrik Mead

    In “Milkman,” a seated male figure sits staring endlessly ahead, his gaze locked on the viewer. Milk is streaming from his nipple and into a glass that he holds in his left hand. The continuous flow of milk never seems to fill the glass. The sound of the flowing milk creates a human fountain out of this portrait.

    Milkman & Milk Bath

    Winter’s End

    • 2010
    • Wrik Mead

    A wintery sun sets on a scene of loss and mourning. The grieving protagonist plummets capriciously from one state of sadness and confusion to another. Battered by forces malevolent and absurd, mirroring his unpredictable emotional states, he repeatedly falls into an avalanche of ice. Down into a barrage of helping hands, down into a winter forest, down into rooms full of memories, and finally down into the place where he must accept the truth.

    Winter’s End

    Prick

    • 2008
    • Wrik Mead

    Stop-motion animation is used to manipulate a penis whose desire becomes its own demise.

    Prick

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