Patrick Jenkins is the author/illustrator of the graphic novel “Tales from Phantom City” (At Bay Press, 2023). Recently he completed the sequel to this book (publication date t.b.a.); and wrote and drew a comic strip story for the anthology comic “First Dates” (Inservice Comics, 2025). An award-winning artist, filmmaker and animator, his latest animated film “Hall of Mirrors” was shown on CBC Gem’s Canadian Reflections Program. He creates and publishes his own flip books. His movies have screened at film festivals around the world and on CBC and BRAVO! Television.
Professional Experience:
-2025 -film “Circle Game” shown at the Digital Graffiti festival, Alys Beach, Florida, U.S.A.
-2024 -Attends the 51e Festival international de la bande dessinée d’Angoulême, Angoulême,
France, as a guest graphic novelist as part of the Focus on the Canadian 9th Art Project
-film “Circle Game” shown in Night Visions in the Village, Winnipeg, Manitoba
-film “Emanations: A Visual Poem” shown in Nuit Blanche, Winnipeg, Manitoba
-2023 –graphic novel “Tales from Phantom City” published by At Bay Press, Winnipeg
-film “Hall or Mirrors” screens on CBC Television’s Canadian Reflections program
and CBC Gem and at Les Sommets du cinema d’animation, Montreal;
the Melbourne International Animation Festival; AFX the Animation Festival of Halifax,
Nova Scotia; and Santiago Del Estero Film Festival, Argentina
-Dramatic reading of “Tales from Phantom City”, The Assembly Theatre, Toronto
-2022 –completes “Hall of Mirrors” which screens at Anima In Situ, International Animation
Film Festival, Morelia, Mexico
-“Emanations” screens at Ibrida Festival of Intermedia Arts, Forlì, Italy
-2021 –storyboards and starts filming a short animated film entitled “Hall of Mirrors”
-“The Museum of Lost Dreams” is shown at Art on Screens, City of Mississauga’s
Public Art Program, Mississauga, Canada and at AFX The Animation Festival of Halifax
-“Emanations: A Visual Poem” shown in Traces of the Future, Momentum Gallery, APKunstArt,
Krakow, Poland
-2020 –completes “Tales from Phantom City”, a 120 page graphic novel.
-2020 -his films screen at Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Athens Digital Art
Festival, Athens, Greece and Over the Real International Video Art Festival, Lucca, Italy
-2019 –completes “The Museum of Lost Dreams”, a short animated film which screens at
the Melbourne International Animation Festival, Australia; the Tofuzi International
Animation Festival, Georgia; Tindirindis International Animation Festival, Lithuania
-“Phantom City” screens in Animations on the Big Screen, Artscape, Baltimore, U.S.A
-“Emanations” screened at the Particle + Wave Media Arts Festival, Calgary, Canada
and Photophobia Film Festival, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada
-2018 –“Emanations: A Visual Poem” wins Best Animation Award, 2018 West Virginia
Mountaineer Short Film Festival, U.S.A. and is screened at 3 other international festivals.
-publishes “The Book of Dreams”, bookwork collection of 290 of his drawings
-2018 -“Sister of the Wind” shown at Animateka International Animated Film Festival, Ljubljana,
Slovenia; Animac, International Animation Festival, Spain; MIAF 2018, Melbourne, Australia; Toronto
Japanese Film Festival; ANIMARIO, International Animated Film Festival of Madrid, Spain; CineEco
Environmental Film Festival, Portugal
-2017 –completes “Sister of the Wind”, a short animated film, in collaboration with
Grammy nominated flutist Ron Korb, which is shown at ROM Speaks, Toronto.
-2017 -awarded a Chalmers Arts Fellowship Grant to develop a graphic novel.
–completes “Emanations: A Visual Poem”, a short animated film which is shown at
#Postreality, 13th Athens Digital Arts-ADAF 2017 Festival, Athens, Greece; Anima-IX
Cordoba, Argentina and 11 other Film and Animation Festivals worldwide.
-2016 –“Circle Game” shown in the exhibition Abstractionists, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
–“Phantom City”, screened at 21 Festivals, including: the Imagine Film Festival,
Amsterdam, Holland; MIAF 2016, Melbourne; Chilemonos Festival Internacional de Animacion,
Santiago, Chile; the Golden Kuker-Sofia International Animation Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria; Ottawa
International Animation Festival; Anim’est International Animation Festival, Bucharest, Romania;
Animated Dreams, Tallinn, Estonia.
-2015 –completes “Phantom City”, a short paint on glass animated film which is screened at
Animax Skopje Fest 2015, Macedonia and Sommets du cinema d’animation, Montreal
-Tours Western Canada presenting his films at Cineworks, Vancouver; Media Net, Victoria;
Emily Carr University, University of Regina, and University of Victoria.
-“Circle Game” shown at the Animex, International Festival of Animation, England; MIAF 2015,
Melbourne, Australia; the Sydney Film Festival, Sydney, Australia, and Rendez-Vous Heure D’Ete,
Cinema Galleries, Brussels, Belgium
-2014 -completes “Circle Game”, a short animated film, which is selected for competition at the
Antimatter Media Art Festival, Victoria, B.C.; the London International Animation Festival, England
and the Sommets du cinema d’animation, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
-2013 -Flown to the Melbourne International Animation Festival, Australia as a Special Guest
Filmmaker, where he does a talk on his work; introduces 3 programs of Independent
Canadian Animation (including 3 of his own films); and conducts an animation workshop.
-2012 -completes “Sorceress”, a short animated film, which is selected for competition at the
Melbourne International Animation Festival, Australia; the BEFILM, Underground
Film Festival, New York City; and the London International Animation Festival, England,
which he attends as Guest Filmmaker, conducting animation workshops, participating on a panel
on Animated Documentaries and judging the Abstract Animation Category.
-completes "Morphing City Hall", a flip book, which is included in the project Flip-Toronto and
acquired by Special Collections, Toronto Reference Library, Toronto
-“Tara’s Dream” selected for competition at Festival Monstra, Lisboa, Portugal
-2011 -Guest Filmmaker at Anima VI, the Córdoba International Animation Festival, in Córdoba, Argentina,
where he conducts a paint on glass animation workshop and screens his
films “Inner View” and “Amoeba” (which was in International Competition).
-“Inner View” selected for competition at the Melbourne International Animation Festival, Melbourne,
Australia; the London International Animation Festival, England; and shown at Monstra Film Festival,
Lisboa, Portugal
-“Amoeba” screened at the Plastic Paper Animation Festival, Winnipeg, Canada
-“Tara’s Dream”, official selection: BEFILM, Underground Film Festival, New York City
and Les Sommets du Cinema D’animation, Montreal, Canada
-2010 -completes “Tara’s Dream” which wins both the Second Prize and the Best Animation
by a Local Artist Prize at the Toronto Urban Film Festival
-completes “Amoeba”, an abstract, animated film based on music by John Zorn,
which wins the award: Best of Show (Gold), TAIS Showcase, Toronto.
-“Labyrinth” wins animation award at BEFILM the Underground Film Festival, New York
City; is shown at Artspace, Peterborough; and the Tel Aviv Animation Festival.
-“Inner View” is selected for competition at Animafest, Zagreb, Croatia; and screened at: Anima Mundi Animation Festival, Brazil; the Ottawa International Animation Festival; in the exhibition “Eleven In Motion” at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa
-Gallery Show of giclee prints and films, Loop Gallery, Toronto (Group Exhibition)
-2009 -“Labyrinth” wins 1st place, (Independent Category), at KAFI 2009, Kalamazoo, U.S.A. and included in the “Selections from the London International Animation Festival 2009 DVD”, U.K.
-2009 -“Labyrinth” screens at the Goteborg International Film Festival, Sweden;
Animabasque, Bilbao, Spain; the Philadelphia Film Festival; the Melbourne International
Animation Festival; the Australian International Animation Festival; and the visual arts exhibition
“Frame To Frame”, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto.
-creates “Inner View”, animated short film based on the art of Kazuo Nakamura shown
at the TIFF Cinematheque and Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto and Les Sommets du
Cinema D’animation, Montreal, Canada
-completes Towers Rising, an animated loop, shown at Photorama, Gallery TPW
-documentary “Death Is In Trouble Now” shown at the Woodstock Art Gallery in the
exhibition: Mark Adair: Twister, Daphne and Apollo, Last Garden.
-2008 -“Labyrinth”, Director/Animator, a paint on glass animated film, chosen as an Official
Selection of the 18th World Festival of Animated Film, Animafest, Zagreb, Croatia and
screened at the Odense International Film Festival, Denmark; the Anima Mundi
Animation Festival, Brazil; Animadrid, Spain; the Montreal World Film Festival; the Ottawa
International Animation Festival; the Vancouver International Film Festival; and
Les Sommets du Cinema D’animation, Montreal, Canada.
-2007 -Two documentaries: “Death Is In Trouble Now: The Sculptures Of Mark Adair”
and “Of Lines and Men: The Animation of Jonathan Amitay” broadcast BRAVO! TV, Canada.
-"The Skateboarder", finalist at the Kalamazoo Animation Festival International, U.S.A.
-2006 -"Daumen Kino", FotoMuseum, Antwerp, Belgium
-"The Skateboarder", shown at the Annecy International Animation Festival, Annecy, France;
Cinematheque Quebecoise, Montreal; Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth,
Vancouver and The Canadian Filmmakers Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
-2005 -"The Skateboarder", Director/Animator, short animated film premiered at the Montreal World
Film Festival and the Ottawa International Animation Festival
-"Man Versus Geometry" shown at the Annecy International Animation Festival,
Annecy, France; Cinematheque Quebecoise, Montreal; and Anifest 3, Hungary.
-2005 -Two Flipbooks by Patrick Jenkins included in the museum exhibition “Daumen
Kino (The Flipbook Show)” at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
-2004 -"Man Versus Geometry", Director/Animator, stop motion animated short
premiered at the 2004 Ottawa International Animation Festival.
-2003 -Visiting Filmmaker: Cineworks Production Co-op, Vancouver, B.C.
-"Ralph: Coffee, Jazz and Poetry", broadcast on Bravo TV Canada
-2002 -documentary "Ralph: Coffee, Jazz and Poetry" broadcast on CBC Television