Blackfly

Year listed: 2014

Published at the original source: 2014-02-05. This is the upload date, which may differ from the film’s release.

6 min · English · Animation · Comedy

Set to a Canadian folk song, this animated short recounts its singer's comic battles with swarms of pesky blackflies during a summer spent surveying the wilds of Northern Ontario.

Why we picked it

Christopher Hinton's Oscar-nominated 1991 NFB animation, set to Wade Hemsworth's folk song about the blackflies that tormented him on a summer survey in Northern Ontario. Five itchy, joyful minutes.

Not curator-rated. Mature themes may occur; source and content review pending.

Source: NFB

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