Deb Ethier

Nightmares

Ominous, terrifying, and disorienting, this animated micro-film is a study in the relentlessness of nightmares.

Effigy House

A meditative journey through the surreal inner spaces of the filmmaker's mind as passing images and thoughts overlap, yearning to coalesce into a concept.

Baggage

In a beautiful but dark and abandoned place a woman is compelled to undertake a quest to discover her emotional baggage and to confront its meaning in this experimental short film combining 3D animation with super8 footage.

The Architect of the Liminal

An artist struggles to find her way in this quirky, off-kilter micro short. Taking inspiration from classic silent films, it combines Super 8 footage with 2D/3D animation and motion graphics.

Epicycle

A surreal experimental animated allegory of the cyclical rise, fall and evolution of social order.

The Masque of the Red Death

Closely adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's short story, this animated tale of a time of pestilence paints a picture of what might have been Poe's own feelings of fatalistic helplessness in the face of the White Plague, tuberculosis, which had claimed several members of his family. Artistically told in a surreal expressionistic style, this film also draws on Poe's own use of colorful and detailed description in the story.

Will Ye No Come Back Again?

A lone communications technician on a distant relay planet must face reality and isolation during her five-year contract with a Terran banking consortium in this animated short.

A Fable for Four Voices

Loosely inspired by folk tales, this film chronicles the mystical journey of a quartet of ageing animals fleeing their fates to find a place free from fear to live out their days, regaining a sense of wonder.

Nightmares

Ominous, terrifying, and disorienting, this animated micro-film is a study in the relentlessness of nightmares.

Effigy House

A meditative journey through the surreal inner spaces of the filmmaker's mind as passing images and thoughts overlap, yearning to coalesce into a concept.

Baggage

In a beautiful but dark and abandoned place a woman is compelled to undertake a quest to discover her emotional baggage and to confront its meaning in this experimental short film combining 3D animation with super8 footage.

The Architect of the Liminal

An artist struggles to find her way in this quirky, off-kilter micro short. Taking inspiration from classic silent films, it combines Super 8 footage with 2D/3D animation and motion graphics.

Epicycle

A surreal experimental animated allegory of the cyclical rise, fall and evolution of social order.

The Masque of the Red Death

Closely adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's short story, this animated tale of a time of pestilence paints a picture of what might have been Poe's own feelings of fatalistic helplessness in the face of the White Plague, tuberculosis, which had claimed several members of his family. Artistically told in a surreal expressionistic style, this film also draws on Poe's own use of colorful and detailed description in the story.

Will Ye No Come Back Again?

A lone communications technician on a distant relay planet must face reality and isolation during her five-year contract with a Terran banking consortium in this animated short.

A Fable for Four Voices

Loosely inspired by folk tales, this film chronicles the mystical journey of a quartet of ageing animals fleeing their fates to find a place free from fear to live out their days, regaining a sense of wonder.

She Makes a Moving Picture

How is a film made? Probably not in this off-kilter, wacky and surreal way. An artist decides it's time to put her dreams on film, but she interprets the "usual" steps of the filmmaking process with her own inimitable results.

A Little Noir Music

An expressionistic micro-short animated tribute to film noir.

Once There Was a Girl

Embark upon a dreamlike journey into childhood stories as they become broken bits of tales and images always in the back of our minds, just out of reach.