The Team
Malcolm Sutherland, Director
Malcolm Sutherland is one of Canada’s most talented and imaginative young animation filmmakers. Originally from Calgary, he studied printmaking at the Alberta College of Art and Design before coming to Montreal in 2002 where he began work at the National Film Board and later studied film at Concordia University.
His films, including Great Ambition (2008), Returning Round (2008), The Tourists (2007) and Birdcalls (2005), have been shown at festivals around the world. Birdcalls won the prestigious debut prize at the Hiroshima International Animation Festival. In 2008, The Tourists was nominated for a Jutra Award for best animated film.
Sutherland also works as an illustrator and comic book artist. His drawings and prints have been exhibited across Canada. His comic book Oola Dug won the 2008 Expozine Alternative Press Award for Best Comic. Forming Game is his third NFB film. He lives in Montreal.
FILMOGRAPHY - View other films by Malcolm Sutherland
- The Tourists (2007)
- Another transient day at the beach
- Robot City 4 (2006)
- Life and death in the robot city
- Birdcalls (2006)
- The written languages of birds come to life
- Palindrome (2006)
- A voyage to a hidden inner city
- Ifa (2005)
- Animated breath-mints
- 2eyes (2005)
- An animated drawing interacts with clay
- Bed Wettin' (2005)
- The village idiot imagines his own death
- Robot City 2 (2005)
- Time passes in the robot city
- Untitled Drawing 3 (2004)
- An experimental animated drawing
- Salt Peanuts Jam (2003)
- A short animated sketch
- Robot City 1 (2002)
- Life goes on in the robot city