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Outside the Box
Experimental films, humorous films and films that make you go "Wha...?"Films
A One/Two/Many/World
- This short surrealistic film portrays a growing boy and the bizarre world ...
- by Richard Swinden,
- 1970,
- 15 min 38 s
Christopher's Movie Matinee
- When movie cameras were put in the hands of a few young ...
- 1968,
- 87 min 28 s
Devil You Know: Inside the Mind of Todd McFarlane
- This feature documentary is a profile of one of the most fascinating ...
- 2000,
- 76 min 59 s
Gentleman Jekyll and Driver Hyde
- This short doc is a novel look at driver safety and the ...
- 1950,
- 8 min 18 s
Oskee Wee Wee
- This documentary is a zany portrait of the particular fever that hits ...
- 1968,
- 10 min 30 s
Radiant City
- In this feature length film Gary Burns, Canada's king of surreal ...
- by Jim Brown & Gary Burns,
- 2006,
- 85 min 34 s
This Is a Recorded Message
- Made up of hundreds of cut-out colour ads presented in fragmented, rapid ...
- by Jean-Thomas Bédard,
- 1973,
- 10 min 10 s
Lodela
- Inspired by the myths of the afterlife, this allegorical dance piece illuminates ...
- by Philippe Baylaucq,
- 1996,
- 26 min 24 s
Night Mayor
- This Guy Maddin film tells the story of inventor Nihad Ademi, who ...
- by Guy Maddin,
- 2009,
- 13 min 53 s
No Problem
- In this animated short, an aging bachelor is facing yet another lonely ...
- by Craig Welch,
- 1992,
- 12 min 42 s
Special Delivery
- In this animated short, Ralph's day gets off to a bad ...
- by Eunice Macaulay & John Weldon,
- 1978,
- 7 min 7 s
The Brainwashers
- In this animated short, two chimney sweepers clear all the memories from ...
- by Patrick Bouchard,
- 2002,
- 12 min 1 s
Ryan
- This Oscar®-winning animated short from Chris Landreth is based on the ...
- by Chris Landreth,
- 2004,
- 13 min 57 s
Carts of Darkness
- Murray Siple's feature-length documentary follows a group of homeless men who ...
- by Murray Siple,
- 2008,
- 59 min 34 s
Tower Bawher
- This animated short by Theodore Ushev is like a whirlwind tour of ...
- by Theodore Ushev,
- 2006,
- 3 min 46 s
Drux Flux
- Part figurative, part abstract, Drux Flux is an animated short comprised of ...
- by Theodore Ushev,
- 2008,
- 4 min 47 s
The Apprentice
- In this animated short from Richard Condie (The Big Snit), an old ...
- by Richard Condie,
- 1991,
- 9 min
The Big Snit
- This poignant and hilarious animated film perfectly captures the intersection of a ...
- by Richard Condie,
- 1985,
- 9 min 54 s
Series 4
- This experimental short documents the clash, sometimes obsessive, sometimes glorifying, between humans ...
- by Normand Grégoire,
- 1972,
- 7 min 29 s
Madame Tutli-Putli
- This stop-motion animated film takes viewers on an exhilarating existential journey into ...
- by Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski,
- 2007,
- 17 min 15 s
21-87
- This short film from Arthur Lipsett is an abstract succession of unrelated ...
- by Arthur Lipsett,
- 1964,
- 9 min 40 s
Free Fall
- An experimental film from Arthur Lipsett, Free Fall is an assortment of ...
- by Arthur Lipsett,
- 1964,
- 9 min 15 s
Carried Away
- This short animated film is an impressionistic reflection on the creative process ...
- by Alan Pakarnyk & Vonnie Von Helmolt,
- 1985,
- 6 min 11 s
Very Nice, Very Nice
- Arthur Lipsett's first film is an avant-garde blend of photography and ...
- by Arthur Lipsett,
- 1961,
- 6 min 59 s
The Devil at Your Heels
- This feature-length documentary introduces viewers to Ken Carter, a Montreal-born stunt driver ...
- by Robert Fortier,
- 1981,
- 102 min 8 s
The Defender
- This documentary is about Bob Diemert of Carman, Manitoba, and his dream ...
- by Stephen Low,
- 1988,
- 54 min 54 s
Project Grizzly
- In this feature-length documentary, Troy James Hurtubise goes face to face with ...
- by Peter Lynch,
- 1996,
- 72 min
