Animated Films from the National Film Board of Canada

The National Film Board of Canada has produced award-winning animated films by filmmakers from around the world. Tonight's program includes: En Passant, pinboard animation set to a French Canadian folksong by the great Russian animator Alexandre Alexeieff (1943, 2 mins); Air (Driessen, 2 mins); Afterlife: What is dying? How does it feel? What happens after we die? A visionary interpretation by Ishu Patel (1978, 7 mins); Special Delivery, looks like a detective story and sounds like a soap opera--a series of misadventures by John Weldon and Eunice Macauley (1978, 7 mins); The Owl Who Married a Goose: An Eskimo Legend by Caroline Leaf (1974, 8 mins); Evolution: Darwin himself would have had a good laugh at this factual and fanciful explanation by Michael Mills (1971, 10 mins); Tchou Tchou: all the animation takes place on the six sides of the toy blocks that form a child's city, by Co Hoedeman (1972, 14 mins); Aucassin and Nicolette, a medieval story that comes alive with fairy tale enchantment at the hands of renowned German animator Lotte Reiniger (1975, 16 mins); and Animation from Cape Dorset (19 mins).

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