As part of Alberta Arts Days (Sept 17 - 19), Metro Cinema and the Alberta Media Arts Alliance Society are proud to present the latest edition in the ongoing series of annual anthologies of short films and videos made in Alberta. This edition features fourteen animated, live action and experimental shorts. A showcase for some of the best recent work by Alberta’s media artists, 2010’s Prairie Tales 12 treats viewers to an impressive range of genres and styles, from sci-fi adventure to activist documentary, from sketch comedy to family drama, from narratives to essays and experimental pieces and from hand-made and hand-drawn animation to CGI and stop motion.
Produced with support from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
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A frustrated love story about astronauts and rocket ships, spaces between people and the human desire for closeness.
Escape from Death Planet
Three research facility workers are left behind on a distant planet that has been evacuated after an attack by never-before-seen life forms.
Tales From the Heart
A fantasia on the human heart offers a wild ride through the body, the gutter and the cosmos.
Tar Sand Pudding
Three kids take on Alberta’s oil sands and create a holy mess of their own in this send-up of a cooking show.
A Dozen Ways
A change of circumstances prompts a sweet, quirky young woman to abandon previous assumptions and embrace a a freer and more creative way of life.
Water Under the Bridge
While scattering his father’s ashes from an old iron bridge, a man is forced to confront tragic memories from thirty years before.
Coffee Stop
A man detached from reality seeks reconnection through a morning ritual at his local café.
Punchlines
The filmmaker examines an early motivation for becoming an artist in a piece shot entirely on an iPhone.
Glimpses of Injustice: The Annual Olive Harvest in Palestine
A documentary about Palestinian farmers’ struggles to access their land during the annual olive harvest.
Maverick
A rhapsodic celebration of film as an artistic medium.
Intergalactic Who's Who: The El Huge-O Maximus
An informative spoof about a strange creature that grows to giant proportions on a distant and dangerous planet.
Greenwash Gang
Eager for more money and a change of pace, a group of money-launderers try their hand at bank robbery.
The Empress
A wistful narrative set to music about loneliness, falling in love and lost chances.
Would You Believe it's the End of the World, Kenneth?
One night, the world just…ends.
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