The Time Traveller's Pantoum

In this whiteboard animation, an aging Time Traveller meditates upon his failures as he prepares to stop his younger time travelling self from saving their mother, who died giving birth to them. Adapted with permission from a poem by Daniel Scott Tysdal.

  • Tiz (Daniel Tysdal)
    Director
  • Tiz (Daniel Tysdal)
    Writer
  • Tiz (Daniel Tysdal)
    Producer
  • Jesse Lowther
    Key Cast
  • Meg Kirkland
    Animator
  • Andrew Shenkman
    Composer
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Short
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 6 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 28, 2017
  • Production Budget:
    1,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Tiz (Daniel Tysdal)

Daniel Scott Tysdal is the ReLit Award winning author of three books of poetry, most recently, Fauxccasional Poems (icehouse 2015), and the poetry textbook, The Writing Moment: A Practical Guide to Creating Poems (Oxford University Press 2014). His film and video work includes the short film, Film Frame, which was an Official Selection for the 2017 Toronto Short Film Festival, and the Fauxccasional Poems Video Project: bit.ly/fauxpoemvid. He is an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, in the Department of English at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Learn more about his work at: www.danielscotttysdal.com.

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