Animation Weekend at BAM

Three days of animation:

Best of the Ottawa International Animation Festival 60min Fri, Jul 25 at 2, 4:30, 6:50, 9:15pm Animation Weekend opens with Lapsus (pictured) from Argentina, about a curious nun; John and Karen, about the romantic complications of a British polar bear; and I Met the Walrus, an Academy Award-nominated film.

Animation Block Party 1 90min Sat, Jul 26 at 2, 6:50pm Experimental works and music videos include Air, an abstract collage of smoking; Illuminant, a stop-motion animation made up of photographs; andOne Skin (pictured).

Animation Block Party 2 90min Sat, Jul 26 at 4:30, 9:15pm Features Guy Talk, in which dude mice talk smack about ladies on a plane; the inventive Teat Beat of Sex, a take on sex exclusively from a woman's perspective; and Hot Dog by celebrated NYC animator Bill Plympton.

Animation Block Party 3 90min Sun, Jul 27 at 2, 6:50pm A secret agent attempts to rescue a child's goldfish in Operation Fish, while Goobees exposes the dark side of candy manufacturing, and two superheroes share a drink in a Gotham bar in Batman and Wolverine.

Animation Block Party 4 90min Sun, Jul 27 at 4:30, 9:15pm Everyone's favorite packing material has its day in Fantaisie in Bubblewrap,while Whoopi Goldberg's eyebrows go AWOL in Whoopi's Eyebrows, and a pear and apple discuss life in the fridge in Fresh Fruit.

For tickets and more information visit www.bam.org