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A satirical history of Halifax, written and sung in honour of the city's founder by balladeer James Bennet.

Based on McLaren's Begone Dull Care (1949), Dix anagrammes autour de Norman McLaren uses an “anagram machine” to modify words in French...

Inspired by Norman McLaren’s Spheres (1969), this black-and-white video by Léna Babadjian uses architectural projection to study the...

A chase between a "McLaren" bird and a weird shape illustrates the musical dialogue between a clarinet and a cello. This film aims to make the public...

An animation/documentary hybrid of the filmmaker's unraveling of memories and quest for clues for a lost uncle in North Korea in a desperate bid for...

With music by Mathieu Vanasse and uncompromising lyrics, Virginie Egger's Un pas uses a photomontage technique evoking glossy media images to...

Laughing and carefree, the children in Sous un ciel burlesque are playing catch. With a few strokes of Pierre Sylvestre's pen, their innocent game...

A constellation of stars spread over the wall of an artist's studio metamorphose into a tumult of organic forms, which explode into a whirling,...

Every night, when the vampire bats fly off in search of nourishment, they avoid the dead tree where victims of the Great Sickness are left to die....

A charming children's story about three birds--one is being served for Thanksgiving dinner by Grandma. The other birds are featured in two improbable...

Within a circle humans exploit animals--predators and victims share the same vital space, for good or for evil. Was the first weapon created to kill,...

During walks around Stanley Park in Montreal, the director became, for several months, the attentive witness of a number of events, gestures,...

A ringing sound breaks into a woman's sleep. The sinister telephone becomes tangled in its own cord and plunges into dreamlike oblivion. As no one...

A modest employee, who has become an artist-painter, projects his existential anxieties into his paintings, which are appeased by familiar faces. The...

A Chaplinesque mime goes through the pixilated motions of his workaday existence. Functioning inside a black frame that manipulates him and restricts...

The sails are hoisted and, leaving the port, a sailboat makes us live its discovery of the sea. Subjected to the capricious mood of the weather, it...

Experimental animation techniques give an impressionistic view of a day's weather in Atlantic Canada.

Alcoholism is the subject of this animated film. Stark line drawings portray the vicious cycle of drinking and family break-up, as the head of a...

A comic cartoon, without commentary, showing that not everyone who rises to the challenge of sport can be sure of success. Pictured is a man with...

In this animated film a black line becomes a magic cord to serve a small child's fancy. In Nébule's hands it becomes whatever he wills--a hoop...