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The illustrated cover art for Tales from Phantom City, with the title at the top. A city skyline at night with a starry sky, crescent moon and a few clouds. A blonde woman in a white hoodie looks on in amazement at a mysterious gaunt man in a hat and dark glasses and a ginger cat, appearing on the sides of two buildings, with people in apartment windows. A cat pendant hangs from the clock tower in the background, while a black cat with white paws peers down from the building behind the woman. At the bottom, centre: Patrick Jenkins.
The illustrated cover art for Tales from Phantom City, with the title at the top. A city skyline at night with a starry sky, crescent moon and a few clouds. A blonde woman in a white hoodie looks on in amazement at a mysterious gaunt man in a hat and dark glasses and a ginger cat, appearing on the sides of two buildings, with people in apartment windows. A cat pendant hangs from the clock tower in the background, while a black cat with white paws peers down from the building behind the woman.

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Patrick Jenkins

2018 West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival Best Animation Award • First Prize at the 2010 Toronto Animated Image Society Showcase • Second Prize and Best Animation Prize at the 2010 Toronto Urban Film Festival • First place in the Independent, 6 to 30 Minutes Category at the 2009 KAFI Festival

Patrick Jenkins is an award-winning Toronto-based artist, animator and documentary filmmaker whose work has appeared in art galleries and film festivals all over the world, as well as on broadcast television. He offers lectures and screenings; and facilitates workshops in creative approaches to animation, including making flipbooks and incorporating a paint on glass animation technique. He also created a how-to book on flipbook animation, as well as an instructional video on animation for kids. Watch him demonstrate his glass animation technique (scroll down, towards the bottom, it’s a video from 2012).

Film noir and magic realism figure prominently in his animation work. And these two genres intersect in his debut graphic novel Tales from Phantom City, which was released in April 2023, and is available in bookstores and from the publisher At Bay Press.

 

A grid of 4 images, featuring a photograph, illustrations and text. Top left: Black & white photo of Patrick Jenkins, smiling at us. He has a bald forehead/top of head with silver white hair and sideburns, beard and mustache, and is wearing a dark shirt. Top right: Black & white still from Labyrinth. Through a circular window in a door, we see the silhouette of a woman wearing a fedora, arms out and mouth open in shock. Bottom left: A black & white still from Hall of Mirrors. A close-up of young woman, her black hair tied back, gazing at her face in a mirror on the wall. Bottom right: Patrick Jenkins is an award-winning artist, animator & documentary filmmaker whose work has appeared in art galleries, film festivals and on television.

(Photo credits: Patrick Jenkins)

 

What we like about this artist

We’re fascinated by the creative process that Jenkins uses to produce his animated films – traditional stop-motion animation, but with the images painted and manipulated on glass! His flipbooks – which consist of a series of images that, when you flip through the pages, allow you to create your own DIY mini-film – and are pocket-sized, fun and collectible.

We also appreciate that, in addition to being able to watch on video streaming or TV, you can see his films at in-person screenings and purchase them on DVD. There’s a dark, yet playful, quality to his work that is compelling, poignant and fun. And we especially love the combination of film noir and magic realism in his art – Labyrinth (which you can see a clip of here – it’s one of the video clips towards the bottom of the page) is one of our favourites (so much so, that Cate has a framed print of a still from this film). View his work and embark on a visual storytelling adventure. (Written by C.M.)

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