Forage

Carolyn
Gair

Carolyn Gair is an award winning Canadian filmmaker, and a 1983 graduate of Sheridan College, Ontario with a degree in Classical Animation. In 1991 her career took her to Warner Bros in Los Angeles, working as a story artist winning both an Emmy Award and an Annie nomination before moving to animated features at Disney, Pixar, Paramount, Apple and Warner Bros. In 2014 Carolyn started experimenting with stop-motion for Instagram and fell in love with the creative freedom it allowed. She started her own stop-motion studio Bowling4Rhinos Productions in 2018. In 2023 she completed her first animated feature RETURN TO KELLOGG, as well as several award winning stop-motion shorts which won Best Children’s Short & Audience Favorite Awards.

Zip is an intrepid but lonely “rustbot” in a world of found-objects come-to-life. Zip explores the vast expanses of a cluttered and long-abandoned attic.

This film screens as part of the programLaika and Other Animations.