WHAT IS FLAVOURCEL?

Flavourcel is an animation collective of 10 artists based in the Unceded Coast Salish territories. We work collaboratively to make short-form experimental animations that entertain the contemporary narrative of what animation is, and can be. This includes GIFs, music videos, installations, print media, and more. We are heavily settled in collective decision-making structures and we aim to keep the collaborative spirit at the core of what we do. In other words; democratizing resources and prioritizing voices that are not so often heard.

Many of us are institutionally-trained animators, however we felt that the path often laid out for many emerging animators exists in the following binary: to be an independent auteur making animations alone in your basement or to join the animation industry. Both of these routes were limiting in their own ways.

We feel that it is important to re-introduce play into animation; the act of making doesn’t have to be so serious or so solitary, it’s always better when you bring your friends along!