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    Mind Game

    Mike Ogston, Ryan Von Hagen
    Canada | 2025 | 9’12’’ | national premiere

    Mind Game was created from over 3000 drawings made between the years 1967 and 1998. These drawings were not created with animation in mind, instead each piece was intended to capture movement within a still frame. In 2024, with the help of the Quickdraw Animation Society, the natural patterns and progressive movements in these drawings were put into sequence and animated.

    Direction: Mike Ogston, Ryan Von Hagen
    Animation: Ryan Von Hagen
    Sound Design: Brock Geiger, Studio B
    Production: Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Quickdraw Animation Society

    Mike Ogston, Ryan Von Hagen

    Mike Ogston
    Mike created these drawings many years ago by wanting to see something new to himself. He usually started with a line that then developed into a composition, and once that was created, was inspired to see the endless possibilities that arose from one drawing to the next. So, a subtitle change from the previous drawing to the next continued 3000 times. It wasn’t until he came to QAS in 2025 did he realize that this process is similar to animation.

    Ryan Von Hagen
    Ryan Von Hagen is an animator, as well as an interdisciplinary Artist living in Mohkinstisis also known as Calgary, Alberta. Ryan is the current Artistic Director at the Quickdraw Animation Society and has programmed the GIRAF Festival of Independent Animation since 2016. He also teaches animation and storytelling practices at the Alberta University of the Arts. In his own practice he has worked on feature length documentaries, AFA and Canada Council funded short animated films, and theatre productions. He has a wide technical background in the world of animation and believes in the power of cinema through collaboration and community.