Join us for a rare 16mm presentation of renowned independent animator Bill Plympton's (@plymptoons) surreal hand-drawn musical extravaganza, THE TUNE (1992).

Films by Daïchi Saïto, Karen Holmes, Amy Halpern, Peter Lipskis, Chris Welsby, Ellie Epp, Mike Stoltz, Sophie Michael, Gary Beydler, and Pat O’Neill.

This one hour program is comprised of experimental works which utilize unconventional editing techniques, offering unique glimpses of time condensed to manipulate movement within layered planes of reality, creating pulsating spatial patterns and hallucinatory visual intensities.

Films by Red Grooms, Ed Ackerman, Daina Krumins, Zbigniew Rybczyński, and Suzan Pitt.

FRAMES outdoes itself with this extra special program of personal favourites and outlandish oddities, among them some of the most memorably recognized and celebrated cult-favourites of experimental animation. DO NOT snooze on this exceptionally unique opportunity to witness these wonders projected on 16mm film.

In partnership with Western University's Film Studies Program, FRAMES presents a 16mm screening of Greta Schiller & Robert Rosenberg's landmark 1984 documentary, Before Stonewall, a passionate cultural history of America's Queer activist community and the fight for liberation during the first half of the 20th Century.

Preceded by two short films by the legendary filmmaker, Kenneth Anger (1927-2023).

ANIMATED FRAMES returns with an eclectic selection of abstract experimental short films by Paul Glabicki, Jennifer Reeves, Yona Friedman, Doris Chase, Len Lye, Sonia Bridge, Alexander Stewart, and Jeff Scher.

With works spanning half a century, this program includes an array of vibrant and vividly textured gems to compliment the culminating centrepiece of the program, Paul Glabicki's staggeringly expansive hand-drawn maximalist minimalist masterpiece, Film-Wipe-Film (1983).

In partnership with All Things Film, FRAMES will present a selection of artist-made 16mm works from our collection, the majority of which have been acquired directly from the filmmakers themselves within the past decade.

FRAMES is passionate about introducing local audiences to both contemporary & historical works and maintains a meticulously curated archive of film prints, ephemera and research material. This program offers a survey of some of the gems we possess though rarely exhibit outside of a private setting.