Trippy File: The India Trip
Welcome to Pondicherry, a town rife with yoga tourists and bright-eyed Westerners who've come to settle in neighbouring Auroville, an utopian community guided by the Mother, a 94 year-old woman from France.
Films
Here you’ll find musings, histories, critiques, and behind-the-scenes info on some of the more than 2,000 films (animations, documentaries, fiction) and interactive projects we’re streaming on NFB.ca.
A Trip Down Memory Lane: A Phantasmagoria of the 20th Century Compressed by Arthur Lipsett
May 13th marks the 76th anniversary of the birth of experimental filmmaker Arthur Lipsett. I thought it appropriate to talk about his films and why they have become such cult...
REW-FFWD: Remembering Denis Villeneuve’s 1994 Jamaican Psychodrama
Watch REW-FFWD (1994), Oscar-nominated filmmaker Denis Villeneuve's "psychodrama" about a photographer stranded in Trench Town (Jamaica).
Max Ward: The NFB Profiles a Canadian Aviation Legend
Do you remember Wardair? It was a very prominent Canadian airline in the 1970s and 1980s. We have recently added a documentary about the airline’s founder, Max Ward, to NFB.ca,...
Notman’s World: Depicting the Dawn of Canadian Photography
Discover Notman's World, a short doc illustrating William Notman's essential contributions to the birth of photography in Canada.
The Sweater Gets Symphonic Treatment in Toronto
Roch Carrier’s The Hockey Sweater, a story about a young Montreal hockey fan who is mistakenly sent the wrong jersey and forced by his mom to wear it, is being...
If I was god: A Chronicle of Anticipated Pain
I’m well into the beginning pre-production of my new film, tentatively titled If I was god… and decided that it might be nice to publicly note the various stages of...
Pacificanada: British Columbia Seen through the NFB Lens
A few months back I wrote a piece on the West television series (you can read it here), the NFB’s second documentary series on the various regions of Canada. West...
The Devil’s Toy: Skateboarding in Montreal in 1966
The NFB, as we all know, is a total paradox. On the one hand, it is a 73 year-old public institution. On the other, it is so insanely cool and...
20 Must-Read Blogs for Film Buffs
Films, like food, are one of those things that are almost as nice to take in as they are to read about (as opposed to say, falling in love or winning the lotto.)
Irving Layton, Canadian Poet Extraordinaire
March 12, 2012, will mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great Canadian poet Irving Layton. To commemorate this occasion, we are adding Donald Winkler’s 1986 documentary Poet:...
Interpreting the North: An interview with Joe Otokiak
Seeing we seem to be on a confession roll here, I don’t see much point in withholding the following information from you guys. Friends, readers – I’m a huge nerd....