This is a short sketchbook-style ani­mated film that takes a close look at peo­ple at a “La Fete Nationale” cel­e­bra­tion in Mon­treal, Que­bec. You can clearly see through the por­trait of each ‘char­ac­ter’ in this ani­mated sketch, you can almost rec­og­nize them from the times you’ve been to a pub­lic event and you even get a good feel­ing for what this Cana­dian event would be like. I watched this with fas­ci­na­tion from begin­ning to end, I think the bril­liance of it is that it gives away so much with very little.

The film was an inde­pen­dent pro­duc­tion, directed and ani­mated by Mal­colm Suther­land with music by Kevin Kar­dasz, and was pro­duced with finan­cial assis­tance from The Con­seil des arts et des let­tres du Québec.