Image Entertainment has announced
Animation Express for release on Blu-ray on June 8.
Animation Express is a compilation of recent auteur animation shorts from the National Film Board of Canada, the world's leading public producer of animated films. The collection features 39 films (13 of them BD-exclusive) from both established and emerging filmmakers, including several award-winning titles.
The collection consists of the following titles:
- At Home with Mrs. Hen (Tali, 2006, 7'52") (BD-exclusive)
- Come Again in Spring (Belinda Oldford, 2007, 11'50")
- Cot Cot (Pierre Sylvestre, 2007, 6'17") (BD-exclusive)
- The Danish Poet (Torill Kove, 2006, 14'24") (BD-exclusive)
- Drux Flux (Theodore Ushev, 2008, 04'47")
- Engine 371 (Kevin Langdale, 2007, 9'07")
- Flutter (Howie Shia, 2006, 6'52")
- Forming Game (Malcolm Sutherland, 2008, 5'27")
- HA'Aki (Iriz Pääbo, 2008, 4'52")
- Here and There (Diane Obomsawin, 2006, 9')
- How People Got Fire (Daniel Janke, 2008, 16'2")
- Hungu (Nicolas Brault, 2008, 9'9")
- Invasion of the Space Lobsters (Janet Perlman, 2005, 6'47")
- Land of the Heads (Cédric Louis and Claude Barras, 2009, 6'8")
- Madame Tutli-Putli (Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, 2007, 17'21")
- The Man Who Slept (Inès Sedan, 11'43")
- The Necktie (Jean-François Lévesque, 2008, 12'17")
- Nightmare at School (Catherine Arcand, 2007, 8'43") (BD-exclusive)
- Paradise (Ishu Patel, 1984, 15'20")
- Peggy Baker: Four Phrases (Howie Shia, 2009, 5'25") (BD-exclusive)
- Pimp ma botte (Marc Daigle, 2005, 5'12") (BD-exclusive)
- Rains (David Coquard-Dassault, 2009, 7'42")
- The Real Place (Cam Christiansen, 2009, 5'26") (BD-exclusive)
- Retouches (Georges Schwizgebel, 2008, 5'35")
- Robes of War (Michèle Cournoyer, 2008, 5'14")
- Roots (Alison Reiko Loader, 2006, 10'55") (BD-exclusive)
- Rosa Rosa (Félix Dufour-Laperrière, 2008, 8'40")
- Runaway (Cordell Barker, 2009, 9'10")
- Ryan (Chris Landreth, 2004, 13'54") (BD-exclusive)
- Sainte Barbe (Cédric Louis and Claude Barras, 2007, 7'45")
- Sleeping Betty (Claude Cloutier, 2007, 9'13")
- Spare Change (Laurie Gordon, 2008, 7'5")
- The Spine (Chris Landreth, 2009, 11'17")
- Stationery (Monica Rho, 2005, 5'20") (BD-exclusive)
- Subservience (Patrick Bouchard, 8'9"
- Terra (Alan Pakarnyk, 2005, 4'42") (BD-exclusive)
- The True Story of Sawney Beane (Elizabeth Hobbs, 2005, 10'39")(BD-exclusive)
- Uncle Bob's Hospital Visit (JoDee Samuelson, 2008, 14'10") (BD-exclusive)
- Vive la rose (Bruce Alcock, 6'22")