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21-87

21-87

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524281

A wry commentary on machine-dominated man, the man to whom nothing matters, who waits for chance to...

23 Skidoo

23 Skidoo

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520597

If you erase the people of downtown America, the effect is bizarre, not to say disturbing. That is...

A Chairy Tale

A Chairy Tale

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522501

A man’s relationship with a chair becomes a symbol of exploitation in this extraordinary...

A Little Phantasy on a 19th-century Painting

A Little Phantasy on a 19th-century Painting

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528120

Taking Isle of the Dead, a work by the Swiss symbolist painter Arnold Böcklin, as his starting...

A One two many world

A One two many world

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528318

A film of cinematic metaphor, made by students of Queen's University. The world of this film, one...

A Trip Down Memory Lane

A Trip Down Memory Lane

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525919

From Arthur Lipsett (Very Nice, Very Nice, 21-87,) another incisive look at human might, majesty...

Angel

Angel

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520247

This is a film about a young man, a girl and a dog, in which the visuals are overexposed or, more...

Around Is Around

Around Is Around

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526648

The 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

Begone Dull Care / Caprice en couleurs

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528107

As the Oscar Peterson Trio play three pieces from their repertoire, Norman McLaren and Evelyn...

Beyond Memory

Beyond Memory

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523317

One of the films made by young women participating in a training program sponsored by the Secretary...

Blinkity Blank

Blinkity Blank

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520395

With an explosion of abstract images engraved directly on film, this well-known Norman McLaren...

Boogie-Doodle

Boogie-Doodle

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525687

In this experimental animated film made in New York, pianist Albert Ammons’ “boogie” comes...

Chasse: Innu Aitun

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

Cityscape

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520166

An animation experiment in creating continuous metamorphoses on the screen that employs charcoal...

David Macleod: It's a Living

David Macleod: It's a Living

National Film Board Of Canada NFB543252

This project pairs five emerging Montreal filmmakers with 5 emerging Montreal musical acts. The...

Dots

Dots

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520294

An abstract film whose images and sounds were drawn directly onto film stock. Made while Norman...

Egypte

Egypte

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524122

Time-lapse photography combined with chanted music gives an impressionistic and highly moving view...

Experimental Film

Experimental Film

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527021

This panel discussion about experimental films features American film historian Herman Weinberg...

Fiddle-de-dee

Fiddle-de-dee

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527284

The tune “Listen to the Mocking Bird” serves as the melody for this richly coloured and...

Five for Four

Five for Four

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525939

A short film made to promote the sale of war bonds, 5 for 4 is set to “Pinetop’s Boogie,”...

Fluxes

Fluxes

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523279

Fluxes is Arthur Lipsett's view of the human condition and the mixed-up planet where humans are...

Four-line Conics

Four-line Conics

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522685

An experimental mathematics film designed to elucidate in a new and stimulating way the study of...

Free Fall

Free Fall

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522865

Free Fall is made of film trimmings assembled to make a wry comment on modern man and his world. It...

Go Limp

Go Limp

National Film Board Of Canada NFB537329

The simple idea of a childhood protest turns into an adult's tactic to evade overtime and a...

Hen Hop

Hen Hop

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527385

After a long sketching session spent capturing the movements of these odd creatures, McLaren...

Hoppity Pop

Hoppity Pop

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525586

In this film by Norman McLaren, made by drawing directly on film stock, simple, brightly...

I'm Sorry

I'm Sorry

National Film Board Of Canada NFB537311

I'm Sorry is a dogme style documentary that involves interviewing people on the street answering...

In the Labyrinth / Dans le labyrinthe

In the Labyrinth / Dans le labyrinthe

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524568

A film without commentary in which multiple images, sometimes complementary, sometimes contrasting...

La Plante humaine

La Plante humaine

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521955

This meditative film combines animation and live action as it follows a day in the life of a...

Loops

Loops

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526588

Norman McLaren made this abstract film in New York, with the goal of selling it to the...

Love on the Wing

Love on the Wing

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521772

For this publicity clip for the United Kingdom’s airmail service, Norman McLaren created a...

Mail Early

Mail Early

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525882

Made by drawing on film stock, using various techniques Norman McLaren had experimented with in...

Mail Early for Christmas

Mail Early for Christmas

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527423

This short film, which was commissioned by Canada Post, was made in the same year and using the...

McBus

McBus

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520206

This is a "nowhere tour" of Montréal, a sort of parody of the world we live in, where all is...

N-Zone

N-Zone

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521931

Arthur Lipsett pieces together his visions of this fragmented world from odds and ends, even...

Negotiating a New Canadian Constitution

Negotiating a New Canadian Constitution

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520864

A visually fascinating and mildly ironic look at the Canadian people, this three-minute film is an...

Now Is the Time

Now Is the Time

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524636

Along with Around Is Around, one of two 3-D films commissioned by the British Film Institute for...

Pandora

Pandora

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525934

Experimental filmmaker and colour cameraman here collaborate in a surrealistic retelling of the...

Pardonnez-moi, Mr. Karsh

Pardonnez-moi, Mr. Karsh

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528460

This 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

Pas de deux and the Dance of Time

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527573

Ludmilla Chiriaeff, founder of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, choreographed Norman McLaren's...

Poen

Poen

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526666

A prose poem read by Leonard Cohen from his novel Beautiful Losers to the accompaniment of diverse...

REW-FFWD

REW-FFWD

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520476

A young photographer is on assignment in Jamaica. It's a cultural shock! First anguished, he later...

Running Time

Running Time

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520980

This feature film is an exotic romp through the '60s in song and dance. A fantasy that pokes fun...

Serenal

Serenal

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524007

This film, made by engraving directly on 35mm film stock with the help of a miniature pneumatic...

Series 4

Series 4

National Film Board Of Canada NFB520532

An allegorical film suggesting the contact of matter and man; the encounter, sometimes obsessive...

Short and Suite

Short and Suite

National Film Board Of Canada NFB528529

Inspired by an Eldon Rathburn jazz melody, Norman McLaren engraved a series of unusual lines and...

Sky

Sky

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521984

From 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

Smart Drugs: A Futurist's Journey Into Biohacking

Fathom Film Group Ltd. FFGL02

If popping a pill could make you smarter, wittier and increase your memory would you take it? If...

Stars and Stripes / Étoiles et Bandes

Stars and Stripes / Étoiles et Bandes

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521512

The stars and stripes of the American flag move to the beat of a military march in this short...

The Ride

The Ride

National Film Board Of Canada NFB526348

This comic fantasy opens with a chauffeur sitting in a Rolls Royce waiting for his employer. He...

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