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A Prairie Story

2006-07-29 · 1 min · Not rated

Animation

A prairie landscape undergoes a metamorphosis: rural idyll to over-urbanized dystopia. Director Anne Koizumi laments the changing face of her hometown of Calgary in this critique of the bacteria-like spread of suburbia and exurbia. This film was made as part of the third edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

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Anne Koizumi
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ONF | NFB
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Canada
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