A beaten path
Natalie Baird & Toby Gillies
Experimental animation
3 min
2024
“A beaten path” is a study of urban prairie plant-life living between the cracks – thistles, burdock, plantain, etc – that spent the summer flourishing in surface parking lots and burned out demolition sites. A looping and constant push forward creates interconnecting cycles of growth and death of these creatures and spaces.
Sound design by Kelsey Braun and Andy Rudolph
Music provided by Sam Sarty and Gilad Carroll
Produced as part of the Video Pool Media Art Centre Video Comission Residency (2024) with the support of the Manitoba Arts Council
Stills from “A beaten path“
Screenings & Installations
2025 Diffusion, re:assemblage collective, Toronto, ON
2025 Gimli International Film Festival, Gimli, MB
2025 Video des Femmes dans le Parc, 34e édition, Groupe Intervention Vidéo, Montréal, QC
2025 Les sommets du cinéma d’animation, Montréal, QC
2024 Prairie Fever, Poolside, Videopool Media Arts Centre, Winnpeg, MB