Fyoog
2016 · 1m · Canada
Directed by Curtis Horsburgh
Genres: animation, experimental, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, surreal, whimsical
A surreal one-minute hybrid of stop-motion and 2D animation dreams about a Toronto subway train, built from found sound of a subway car. Passengers are warned to stand clear of the doors.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A one-minute fever dream that treats the Toronto subway—that most mundane ritual—like a portal into genuine weirdness; the hybrid animation approach isn't a gimmick but a refusal to let the banal stay banal, and that's exactly the kind of subversive instinct that makes other scouts sleep on their best finds.
Horsburgh's precise collage of stop-motion and 2D registers as a deliberate formal choice rooted in experimental animation lineage, though the brevity and found-sound foundation feel more sketch than fully realized work—a compelling study in technique rather than a complete statement.
The decision to build the entire piece from authentic subway ambience—letting the sound design carry the surrealism rather than impose it—is what transforms this from a cute animation exercise into something genuinely disorienting; that restraint, that choice to trust the found audio, is everything.