Remembering Acclaimed Inuit Artist Kenojuak Ashevak
Kenojuak Ashevak, one of Canada’s most acclaimed graphic artists, died yesterday at the age of 85. At the time of her death, the Inuit art pioneer was living in a...
Author : Carolyne Weldon
Carolyne Weldon is a writer and photographer living in Montreal. Her interests include storytelling, music, martial arts, language, and spirituality. Contact her at c.weldon@nfb.ca
Pre-Christmas Madness, Montreal, 1958
Christmas came exceptionally early for me this year. I was in Haiti at the end of November, and Christmas was in full sway there, already. (Haiti is, amongst other things,...
The Lockout Sweater, by This Hour Has 22 Minutes
We Canadians are a resilient people. We stoically endure winter. We deal with ridiculously short, mosquito-rich summers. But one thing that is starting to exhaust our collective mojo is this...
Cure for Love: When Sex and Scriptures Clash
Despite the New Testament's central "love one another" message, being at once gay and Christian has long posed challenges to those attempting to embrace and live out both.
Fit Seniors Alert: Age is No Barrier
It’s paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn’t appeal to anyone. – Andy Rooney I’m kind of comfortable...
Magic Molecule: A Plastic Love Affair
Life today can be very complicated. The sun equals cancer. Too much fish equals mercury poisoning. Jogging in big cities equals never mind, air pollution will cancel out the run’s...
Witnessing War: 10 Photos of Canadians Involved in WW2
The 20th century was rocked and shaped by conflict. From Korea, Sudan, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Lebanon and the former Yougoslavia (among others) to the first and second World Wars, the NFB...
Steal Like An Artist: In Defense of the Right to Remix
If, as conventional wisdom has it, “everything has already been done”, what remains, by definition, is rearranging the existing parts. A person who shares this opinion is filmmaker and remixer...
You’re No Good: The Perils of Adolescence in 1965
In the history of the world, adolescence is about as recent an invention as penicillin. Pre-teenagers, everyone fell in either one of 2 categories: kid or adult. No in-betweens. Children...
Catch Stories We Tell in a Canadian Theatre Near You
“Stories We Tell is clever, moving, often funny, very surprising, and likely one of the best movies you’ll see this year.” – Liz Braun, Toronto Sun “A brilliant film: an...
5 NFB Films for Foodies
Food is everything. Without it we die, while a single bite of it can unfurl passions, flood us with nostalgia, transport us to heaven and make us dearly yearn for...
As Trippy As It Gets: Series 4
The absurd, it would appear, acts as a tonic for the mind. A recent study published in Psychological Science established that people who had read a particularly absurd and confusing...