Experimental
72 title(s) found.
21-87
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 Film for Max
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522066A film where the director turns his camera on his own domestic existence and essays to show it...
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...
Autour de la perception/Around Perception
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527395Délire ordonné, géométrie sonore, mathématiques en couleurs psychédéliques, Autour de la...
Ballet Adagio
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526798Éblouissante démonstration de la technique de l'adagio du pas de deux. Ce film tourné au...
Begone Dull Care
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528107As the Oscar Peterson Trio play three pieces from their repertoire, Norman McLaren and Evelyn...
Blinkity Blank
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520395With an explosion of abstract images engraved directly on film, this well-known Norman McLaren film...
Bloodsugar
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524834A film less clinical than the title suggest--a pseudo-documentary fantasy about, in the words of...
Boogie-Doodle
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525687In this experimental animated film made in New York, pianist Albert Ammons’ “boogie” comes...
Ceci est un message enregistré
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521098Réalisé à partir de coupures de journaux et de magazines groupées et soumises à un mouvement...
Cityscape
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520166An animation experiment in creating continuous metamorphoses on the screen that employs charcoal...
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,...
Face, Face, Face, Face
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526312This film is a visual experiment, an exploration into the past, present and projected life of a...
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...
Garden
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521982A film animation experiment in metaphoric imagery. This is a surrealistic garden where the earth...
Hen Hop
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527385After a long sketching session spent capturing the movements of these odd creatures, McLaren made...
Hoppity Pop
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525586In this film by Norman McLaren, made by drawing directly on film stock, simple, brightly coloured...
Il était une chaise
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522501A man’s relationship with a chair becomes a symbol of exploitation in this extraordinary...
Il était une chaise
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522501A man’s relationship with a chair becomes a symbol of exploitation in this extraordinary...
Interval
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527122The slow, simple rhythms and the quiet energy of this film suggest an antidote to the dominant...
Lines Horizontal
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528335Two years after making Lines Vertical, Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren experimented with rotating...
Lines Vertical
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527916This experiment in minimalism is an elegant evocation of abstract expressionism (Norman McLaren and...
Lodela
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522716The soul leaves the body. Drawn by intense light, the spirit discovers its twin self, its feminine...
Loops
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526588Norman McLaren made this abstract film in New York, with the goal of selling it to the Guggenheim...
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 his...
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...
Mirage
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522195An intriguing inside-out view of moving figures and images, made by using a colour negative print,...
Mosaïque/Mosaic
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527149Lignes verticales et Lignes horizontales ont servi de point de départ à ce film qui renferme des...
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...
Op Hop - Hop Op
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521315Film d'animation réalisé au moyen d'une série de vingt-quatre images positives et négatives...
Opus 3
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521547Des images vont, viennent, reviennent, se dépassent et se superposent en cercle, en carré, en...
Pandora
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525934Experimental filmmaker and colour cameraman here collaborate in a surrealistic retelling of the old...
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
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527507Ce film est une sorte de miroir magique de la danse. Margaret Mercier et Vincent Warren, deux...
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...