One of my favourite animated films of all time is now available online! Hunger (La Faim), by Peter Foldès, was produced at the National Film Board of Canada in 1974. It is a little fable about greed. It has a great soundtrack and really lovely animation. The stylized imagery made Hunger a bit of a VJs favourite, as well.
Hunger is a landmark work actually, since it is one of the earliest examples of computerized keyframe animation. Nestor Burtnyk and Marceli Wein, the two computer animators who developed this technique, won an Academy Award for Technical Achievement for their work. The Academy said in a press release: “[Marceli and Wein] demonstrated the first significant use of the computer in two dimensional key-frame character animation and influenced many subsequent developments in computer animation techniques.”
Watch Hunger here, and while you are at it, check out the other animated films (including some other real gems Рfor an injection of Canadiana, check out The Sweater, and The Legend of the Flying Canoe for a classic Qu̩becois tale) that the NFB has made available on the web.