Movies

This short film from Arthur Lipsett is an abstract collage of snippets from discarded footage found by Lipsett in the editing room of the National...

Norman McLaren attempts to give the opening speech for the first Montreal International Film Festival, but his microphone won't cooperate.

Arthur Lipsett's first film is an avant-garde blend of photography and sound. It looks behind the business-as-usual face we put on life and shows...

Portrait of the early era of computing which examines the workings of a new and mysterious machine: the Canada Land Inventory Geo-information System....

This short satirical film, created entirely from archival footage, is about the British Empire—on which the sun never sets. The majority of the...

This short documentary studies the fate reserved to young people through the ages. Drawing from paintings, archival footage and various other...

Documentary short, directed and edited by Arthur Lipsett in 1963 for the National Film Board of Canada

Documentary short, directed by Arthur Lipsett in 1965 for the National Film Board of Canada

This short film is a series of vignettes of life in Saint-Henri, a Montreal working-class district, on the first day of school. From dawn to...

In this experimental collage film, Arthur Lipsett reworks over fifty years of newsreel footage into a surreal audiovisual montage of...

Arthur Lipsett’s Strange Codes is the legendary found-footage filmmaker’s first and only independent film, made after his departure from...

An experimental film from Arthur Lipsett, Free Fall is an assortment of film trimmings assembled to make a wry comment on humankind in today’s...

A collection of one-minute cartoons produced by the National Film Board of Canada animators for government sponsors. Showcasing a playful selection...

This film contains three demonstrations by Dr. D.C. Donderi, showing the importance of experience in determining what we see. Each illustrates a...

Documentary short, directed by Arthur Lipsett in 1965 for the National Film Board of Canada

Arthur Lipsett’s N-Zone is the longest, loosest and last of the collage films he produced at Canada’s National Film Board (NFB). It marks...

The capacity for irrational fears increases with intelligence, being characteristic of the higher animals and people rather than of lower animals,...

Documentary short, directed by Arthur Lipsett in 1965 for the National Film Board of Canada

Fluxes is Arthur Lipsett's view of the human condition and the mixed-up planet where humans are found. As in his other films (Very Nice, Very Nice;...