ANN MARIE FLEMING is an award-winning Canadian independent filmmaker of Chinese and Australian descent. She works in a variety of different genres including: dramatic, animation, experimental and documentary.
Despite meticulous preparations and good intentions all round, when stickgirl's parents visit, only a good old family gorge-out can fill the deafening silence that represents all that is never said.
Writer/Director: Ann Marie Fleming
Composer: Gordan Durity
Animator: Kevin Langdale
Producers: Amit Breuer, Peter Harvey
Funder: Bravo!FACT
I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors is director Ann Marie Fleming’s animated adaptation of Bernice Eisenstein’s acclaimed illustrated memoir. Using the healing power of humour, the film probes the taboos around a very particular second-hand trauma, leading us to a more universal understanding of human experience.
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This wonderfully weird DNTO animated short is a story by Sook-Yin Lee
directed by filmmaker Ann Marie Fleming. For more eye and ear candy go to:
http://www.cbc.ca/dnto
http://www.sleepydogfilms.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/CBCdnto
http://www.youtube.com/sookyinlee
(digital paint, 5:20 min)
Writer/Song/Producer/Director
Stickgirl observes the horses outside her window and reminisces about her father, world history and the way things are...
Upside down karaoke: An unknown song for public consumption
(digital paint, 0:25 min)
Producer/Director
Animation of the winning haiku of Sleepy Dog Films' haiku contest as interpreted by Ann Marie Fleming.
(flash animation, 15:15 min)
Writer/Director/Producer
Our witty and charming Heroine struggles to make green choices in a confusing world.
Click to view the film on Planet Green.
(digital paint, 3:32 minutes)
Film by Ann Marie Fleming
"Landslide" interpreted by Sarah Jarvis
Lyrics- Stevie Nicks, Fleetwood Mac, 1974
-about a father-daughter relationship
This work was produced for 2008 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival & Gendai Gallery Empty Orchestra Video Commission.
With the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
(digital paint, 5 min.)
Writer/Director/Animator/Producer
Based on the theory that each acupuncture needle has a resonance and each resonance corresponds to an organ and each organ tells a different story . . . we watch the continuing saga of Stickgirl as he runs through her life. A film about resilience and endurance.
(digital, 2 min.)
Writer/Director/Animator
In this bravofact! commissioned cellphone mobisode... the heart tries to transform itself into whatever it thinks its love desires... but it all goes to hell.
Click to view the film on Shorts in Motion.
(35 mm feature, 83 min.)
Writer/Director/Producer
Elizabeth Murray just wants to help! Feeling lucky to be alive after surviving brain surgery, she brings home a stray young man to nurse him back to health.
(35 mm animated, 8 min.)
Writer/Director/Producer
A woman is awakened in her hotel room to a couple fighting next door. It all goes very terribly wrong. A true story.
(35 mm documentary, 88 min.)
Writer/Director/Producer
A celebration of the spirit of Long Tack Sam's magic and art, this richly textured first person road movie is an exhilarating testament to his legacy and a prismatic tour through the 20th century. It all begins in a small village in China.
(digital, 4 min.)
Director/Animator/Producer
An animated riff on Jobim's bossa nova classic.
(35mm drama, 7min.)
Writer/Director/Executive Producer
In a world hungry for martyrs or heroes, of global corporate culture, pointless elections and ceaseless political strife, there is still a way to use history as a healing force. There is still a personal ability and responsibility to continue to make art; art that moves us beyond helplessness; art that can celebrate the very act of living.
(35mm/digital/animated/live action drama, 45 min.)
Writer/Director/Producer
A single, unemployed, lipless woman hires herself out as a private detective, but the only thing she finds is her own vulnerability.
(animated/digital, 2min)
Writer/Director/Producer
A musical look at reproductive technologies circa 1962.
(35mm/animated, 5min)
Writer/Director/Producer
The myth of Tiresias, revisited
(35mm/animated, 2min)
Stickgirl finds fame and fortune through documentary filmmaking.
Using the adventure-filled diary of her great great grandfather, SoTo-Ming, as a guide, the filmmaker explores the nature of biography.
A woman recounts Ahmed's dream of desire while a man sings to us about the ineffability of happiness.
(16mm/animated, 90sec)
Writer/Director/Producer/Animator
Some of life's little obstacles that get in the way of a girl and what she really wants: to do her work.
(16mm/animated, 90sec)
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A schoolyard clapping song prepares us for future dysfunctional relationships.
(16mm, 15min)
A polyglot tango through family dynamics after the matriarch dies.
(16mm, Documentary, 45min)
Writer/Director/Producer/Animator
Ostensibly a mockumentary on twins, this film explores narrative expectations and our desire for meaning.
(35mm, 7min)
Writer/Director/Producer
What looks like a bad date turns out to be an allegory for why 1993 was not the year to be quoting T.S. Eliot.
(16mm/animated, 2min)
A stick figure portrait of the artist as a young woman.
(16mm, 5min)
With Mike Hoolboom-musical exploration of gender construction within the context of mainstream cinema.
(16mm, 15min)
A film that juxtaposes the exploits of Grandpa with the unmentioned women that made them all possible.
(16mm, Drama, 80min)
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A film that explores a woman's obsession with another woman's story in an attempt to understand the nature of violence while trying to stayapart from it.
(16mm, drama, 5min)
Writer/Director/Producer
Made for Studio D's 5 Feminist Minutes series, this film explores the themes of media voyeurism and violence through the story of Gaye, whois a survivor of a murder/suicide attempt by her ex-fiancé.
(16mm, Experimental Documentary, 11min)
Writer/Director/Producer
A story of being raped and run over is an acknowledgement of commonhuman experience and the grace and humour that lets us go on.
(16mm/animated, 2min)
A wooden artists' model tries her hand at syncopation with an unusual percussion set.
(16mm, experimental documentary, 6min)
Writer/Director/Producer
Upon the death of her grandmother, a poetic vision on the eternal quality of family bonds.
