Maurice Blackburn

Two ballet dancers perform a dance enhanced with surreal after-image visuals.

01 de out. de 1968

In a little village at the end of the 1890's, a young woman offends all the 'right-thinking' villagers by allowing men in her house in the absence ...

07 de fev. de 1980

An ordinary looking chair refuses to be sat upon.

31 de dez. de 1957

A playful exercise in intermittent animation and spasmodic imagery. Playing with the laws relating to persistence of vision and after-image on the ...

25 de abr. de 1955

This animated short by Evelyn Lambart is a visual adaptation of the famous Aesop fable "The Lion and the Mouse," in which a mouse proves to a lion ...

21 de jun. de 1976

This animated short from Norman McLaren features a human skull cautioning Canadians to “keep their mouths shut” in an effort to end gossiping durin...

01 de jan. de 1944

The wife of photographer J.A. Martin decides to go with him in his tour of the hard Canadian countryside at the turn of the century. She hopes the ...

26 de mai. de 1977

A short documentary about a small province on the east coast of Canada.

31 de dez. de 1943

An experimental short film of images and music made by Norman McLaren.

31 de dez. de 1947

In this short film by Norman McLaren, dancers enact the Greek tragedy of Narcissus, the beautiful youth whose excessive self-love condemned him to ...

18 de ago. de 1983

A young Jesuit missionary reflects on his life and his faith while awaiting his execution at the hands of the Native Americans he came to convert.

20 de mai. de 1965

A director and an editor, both women, cannot work on a movie presenting the rape of a nurse without reacting on the scenes they're working on, the ...

14 de set. de 1979

One of a series of French-Canadian folk songs, this film was illustrated by Norman McLaren for the Chants populaires series. White gouache drawings...

31 de dez. de 1944

An animated film drawn entirely in pastels. Various fantastical plant-like things "grow" from the ground, eventually launching five spheres. The sp...

01 de jan. de 1952

Three separate sequences related to Christmas, animated in different styles: cutout animation of children dancing in the snow to "Jingle Bells," st...

01 de jan. de 1963

The Living Stone is a 1958 Canadian short documentary film directed by John Feeney about Inuit art. It shows the inspiration behind Inuit sculpture...

04 de fev. de 1958

An efficiency expert is called in to downsize a trucking company and the employees fight to establish a union to save their jobs.

01 de jan. de 1958

A tiny Quebec community is thrown into an uproar when a tall young Texan named Bill arrives to claim a farm he has inherited. Bill's inability to s...

29 de mar. de 1949

09 de ago. de 1963

To the tune of a classic French-Canadian nonsense song, surreal blackbird made of lines loses body parts and gets them back threefold.

01 de dez. de 1958

Blocos e bolas lutam simplesmente porque são diferentes, até que sua batalha reduza todos à mesma forma...

10 de mai. de 1973

After returning home from war, an ill-tempered young soldier must deal with his sweetheart having married another man.

20 de fev. de 1953

A giant statue of the letter "E" arrives in the park. One man sees it as "B"; they are preparing to cart him off to the looney bin when a doctor ar...

02 de jan. de 1981

This film profiles Canadian actor Christopher Plummer of the Shakespearean Theatre, Stratford, Ontario. As the minutes tick by, cameras register th...

01 de jan. de 1963

They come in high-powered convertibles, with cameras and curiosity, to look at French Canada and French-Canadians. Their usual objective is Québec ...

31 de mar. de 1962

Two teenage girls go to winter carnival in Quebec City for the first time. Their ambiguous, tentative relation with a young boy brings both of them...

01 de out. de 1964

Two duelling birds get the urge to change their plumage. A blue jay wants to be decked out in the green of cedar, and a loon dons the burnished red...

01 de jan. de 1968

A greedy little blue jay carries away whatever his beak can grasp. Berries, birds' eggs (nests and all), and even the sun in the sky go into his se...

01 de jan. de 1969

Early abstract 3d stereoscopic animation by Norman McLaren collaborator Gretta Ekman.

01 de jan. de 1952

Norman McLaren was a cinematic genius who made films without cameras, and music without instruments. He produced sixty films in a stunning range of...

01 de jan. de 1990

Hélène is a woman who already has, in her view, quite enough children. For some time she has secretly been taking birth control pills, but now she ...

11 de abr. de 1975

This short experimental film from Peter Foldès hails from the very early days of computer animation. Created entirely on a computer belonging to th...

01 de jan. de 1971

The history of the roles of women in Quebec society, beginning with the women shipped from France to the New World by the King to populate the colo...

14 de set. de 1974

This film looks at the world of children with hearing loss and the importance of early diagnosis. With its straightforward, rigorous cinematic styl...

01 de jan. de 1962

This quirky little short by Gilles Carle was filmed on the pierced rock that stands near Quebec’s Gaspé peninsula. It is perhaps the most photograp...

01 de jan. de 1964

Two generals prepare for battle at the Plains of Abraham.

01 de jan. de 1957

This short film serves as a cautionary tale to farmers who recklessly cut down trees on their land. When prairie farmers engaged in this practice t...

02 de jan. de 1943

Pantomime evoking the history of movement in humans performed by Suzanne Rivest.

01 de dez. de 1960

An atmospheric mood piece photographed in the winter at the giant dam built by Hydro Quebec in the northern wilds of the province. The story conce...

01 de ago. de 1965

Filmed in the town of Normétal in northern Québec, this short documentary provides a first-hand introduction to life in a frontier mining community...

01 de jan. de 1960

A square dances.

01 de jan. de 1961

"This documentary depicts a canoe being built in the traditional manner. Cesar Newashish, a 67-year-old Attikamek of the Manawan Reserve North of M...

01 de jan. de 1971

This short documentary illustrates rural French Canadian life in the early 1940s. The film follows Alexis Tremblay and his family through the busy ...

01 de jan. de 1943