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  1. PAS DE DEUX

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    by Norman McLaren — 1968 Norman McLaren takes a look at the choreography of ballet, with cinema effects that are all that you would expect from this master of improvisation in music and illustration.…

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    • STREET MUSIQUE

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      by Ryan Larkin — 1972 Visual improvisation on music performed by a popular group presented as sidewalk entertainers. The illustration is by a young film artist and animator who sees life with an…

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      • VERY NICE, VERY NICE

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        by Arthur Lipsett — 1961 Arthur Lipsett's first film. It looks behind the business-as-usual face we put on life and shows anxieties we want to forget. It is made of dozens of pictures that seem familiar,…

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        • ROBES OF WAR

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          by Michèle Cournoyer — 2008 War has got inside a woman's very being. Inside her head the soldiers march out, trampling down everything in their path. Like a grieving Madonna, she weeps for son and…

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          • WALKING

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            by Ryan Larkin — 1968 An artist's observation of the way people walk. Ryan Larkin employs a variety of techniques--line drawing, color wash, etc.--to catch and reproduce the motion of people afoot.…

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            • THE BRAINWASHERS

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              by Patrick Bouchard — 2002 A man is taken to the doctor's office, but it's not for an ordinary checkup. A huge syringe is thrust into his head. Out of the syringe oozes a sticky yellowish liquid…

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              • SLEEPING BETTY

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                by Claude Cloutier — 2007 Princess Betty sleeps in a narcoleptic stupor. The king appeals to his subjects to wake her. A worthy Prince Charles lookalike has to leave his royal suburb to save the…

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                • THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT

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                  by Ron Tunis — 1967 A humorous animation film about that fellow we all know, who builds his house in the best suburb he can afford, and then aches to be somewhere better. He had a picture bride,…

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                  • NEIGHBOURS

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                    by Norman McLaren— 1952 Norman McLaren here employs the principles normally used to put drawings or puppets into motion to animate live actors. The story is a parable about two people who come to…

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                    • FLUTTER

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                      by Howie Shia — 2006 How big is the world? Searching for an answer, a young boy waves goodbye to his classmates, hops the schoolyard fence and disappears into the city, swallowed by the din and decadence…

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                      • BEAD GAME

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                        by Ishu Patel — 1977 In this fascinating, innovative exercise in animation, thousands of beads are arranged and manipulated, assuming shapes of creatures both mythical and real. They continually…

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                        • HA'AKI

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                          by Iriz Pääbo — 2008 HA'Aki is a short abstract-impressionist film in which the animation and the music were made simultaneously in an organic process of symbiotic creativity. Filmmaker Iriz Pääbo…

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