Blackfly
A comedic animated short that uses repetitive encounters with blackflies as both a humorous ordeal and a wry portrait of Ontario wilderness, driven by music and playful exasperation.
A young surveyer, new to Ontario, encounters the blackflies. Over and over again, he encounters those blackflies.
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