Faces

The scouts

A one-minute National Film Board civic portrait sounds like the opposite of subversive—and it almost is—but there's something genuinely strange about watching faces *morph* into each other as a metaphor for national identity; it's formally clever enough that it almost escapes the earnestness trap.

This sits comfortably in the NFB's tradition of lyrical documentary-animation hybrids, where formal constraint (the one-minute duration, the morphing technique) becomes the argument itself about coherence and difference; a measured, purposeful work that knows exactly what lineage it occupies.

The morphing transition between faces—that single continuous gesture—is doing all the thematic and emotional work here, transforming what could've been a static montage into something that *feels* like flowing connection; one choice that justifies the entire premise.