Experimental
58 title(s) found.
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National Film Board Of Canada NFB524281A wry commentary on machine-dominated man, the man to whom nothing matters, who waits for chance to...
23 Skidoo
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520597If you erase the people of downtown America, the effect is bizarre, not to say disturbing. That is...
A Chairy Tale
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522501A man’s relationship with a chair becomes a symbol of exploitation in this extraordinary...
A Little Phantasy on a 19th-century Painting
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528120Taking Isle of the Dead, a work by the Swiss symbolist painter Arnold Böcklin, as his starting...
A One two many world
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528318A film of cinematic metaphor, made by students of Queen's University. The world of this film, one...
A Trip Down Memory Lane
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525919From Arthur Lipsett (Very Nice, Very Nice, 21-87,) another incisive look at human might, majesty...
Angel
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520247This is a film about a young man, a girl and a dog, in which the visuals are overexposed or, more...
Around Is Around
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526648The second of the two 3-D films--the first is Now Is the Time--commissioned by the British Film...
Begone Dull Care / Caprice en couleurs
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528107As the Oscar Peterson Trio play three pieces from their repertoire, Norman McLaren and Evelyn...
Beyond Memory
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523317One of the films made by young women participating in a training program sponsored by the Secretary...
Blinkity Blank
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520395With an explosion of abstract images engraved directly on film, this well-known Norman McLaren...
Boogie-Doodle
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525687In this experimental animated film made in New York, pianist Albert Ammons’ “boogie” comes...
Chasse: Innu Aitun
CinéFête F9-S01-08«Quand j’ai appris à chasser, on m’a fait observer et comprendre tous les bruits de la forêt...
Cityscape
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520166An animation experiment in creating continuous metamorphoses on the screen that employs charcoal...
David Macleod: It's a Living
National Film Board Of Canada NFB543252This project pairs five emerging Montreal filmmakers with 5 emerging Montreal musical acts. The...
Dots
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520294An abstract film whose images and sounds were drawn directly onto film stock. Made while Norman...
Egypte
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524122Time-lapse photography combined with chanted music gives an impressionistic and highly moving view...
Experimental Film
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527021This panel discussion about experimental films features American film historian Herman Weinberg...
Fiddle-de-dee
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527284The tune “Listen to the Mocking Bird” serves as the melody for this richly coloured and...
Five for Four
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525939A short film made to promote the sale of war bonds, 5 for 4 is set to “Pinetop’s Boogie,”...
Fluxes
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523279Fluxes is Arthur Lipsett's view of the human condition and the mixed-up planet where humans are...
Four-line Conics
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522685An experimental mathematics film designed to elucidate in a new and stimulating way the study of...
Free Fall
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522865Free Fall is made of film trimmings assembled to make a wry comment on modern man and his world. It...
Go Limp
National Film Board Of Canada NFB537329The simple idea of a childhood protest turns into an adult's tactic to evade overtime and a...
Hen Hop
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527385After a long sketching session spent capturing the movements of these odd creatures, McLaren...
Hoppity Pop
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525586In this film by Norman McLaren, made by drawing directly on film stock, simple, brightly...
I'm Sorry
National Film Board Of Canada NFB537311I'm Sorry is a dogme style documentary that involves interviewing people on the street answering...
In the Labyrinth / Dans le labyrinthe
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524568A film without commentary in which multiple images, sometimes complementary, sometimes contrasting...
La Plante humaine
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521955This meditative film combines animation and live action as it follows a day in the life of a...
Loops
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526588Norman McLaren made this abstract film in New York, with the goal of selling it to the...
Love on the Wing
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521772For this publicity clip for the United Kingdom’s airmail service, Norman McLaren created a...
Mail Early
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525882Made by drawing on film stock, using various techniques Norman McLaren had experimented with in...
Mail Early for Christmas
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527423This short film, which was commissioned by Canada Post, was made in the same year and using the...
McBus
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520206This is a "nowhere tour" of Montréal, a sort of parody of the world we live in, where all is...
N-Zone
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521931Arthur Lipsett pieces together his visions of this fragmented world from odds and ends, even...
Negotiating a New Canadian Constitution
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520864A visually fascinating and mildly ironic look at the Canadian people, this three-minute film is an...
Now Is the Time
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524636Along with Around Is Around, one of two 3-D films commissioned by the British Film Institute for...
Pandora
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525934Experimental filmmaker and colour cameraman here collaborate in a surrealistic retelling of the...
Pardonnez-moi, Mr. Karsh
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528460This is hardly photography by Yousuf Karsh, as the title might imply, but it does have its own...
Pas de deux and the Dance of Time
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527573Ludmilla Chiriaeff, founder of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, choreographed Norman McLaren's...
Poen
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526666A prose poem read by Leonard Cohen from his novel Beautiful Losers to the accompaniment of diverse...
REW-FFWD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520476A young photographer is on assignment in Jamaica. It's a cultural shock! First anguished, he later...
Running Time
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520980This feature film is an exotic romp through the '60s in song and dance. A fantasy that pokes fun...
Serenal
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524007This film, made by engraving directly on 35mm film stock with the help of a miniature pneumatic...
Series 4
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520532An allegorical film suggesting the contact of matter and man; the encounter, sometimes obsessive...
Short and Suite
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528529Inspired by an Eldon Rathburn jazz melody, Norman McLaren engraved a series of unusual lines and...
Sky
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521984From the height of the Rockies on the rim of the western plains, the film catches and condenses the...
Smart Drugs: A Futurist's Journey Into Biohacking
Fathom Film Group Ltd. FFGL02If popping a pill could make you smarter, wittier and increase your memory would you take it? If...
Stars and Stripes / Étoiles et Bandes
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521512The stars and stripes of the American flag move to the beat of a military march in this short...
The Ride
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526348This comic fantasy opens with a chauffeur sitting in a Rolls Royce waiting for his employer. He...