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Makers and Creators (Ages 12-14)

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This rich offering of films reflects on the theme of makers and creators and examine the complex relationship between artists and their work, while fostering in-depth learning and creativity. Pour visionner cette sélection en français, cliquez ici. Films in This Playlist Include Norman McLaren: Animated Musician Bone Wind Fire Debris Glenn Gould – Off the Record Stories from Our Land Vol. 2 – Taking Shape Revealing Marie Saint Pierre Home Cooked Music Dream Magic Buffy Capturing Reality: The Art of the Documentary Hand Crafted Cinema Animation Workshop with Caroline Leaf

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Makers and Creators (Ages 12-14)

This rich offering of films reflects on the theme of makers and creators and examine the complex relationship between artists and their work, while fostering in-depth learning and creativity.

Pour visionner cette sélection en français, cliquez ici.

Films in This Playlist Include
Norman McLaren: Animated Musician
Bone Wind Fire
Debris
Glenn Gould – Off the Record
Stories from Our Land Vol. 2 – Taking Shape
Revealing Marie Saint Pierre
Home Cooked Music
Dream Magic
Buffy
Capturing Reality: The Art of the Documentary
Hand Crafted Cinema Animation Workshop with Caroline Leaf

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  • Norman McLaren: Animated Musician
    Norman McLaren: Animated Musician
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    Donald McWilliams 2014 26 min

    Not only did Norman McLaren create his own film imagery, he also made his own music by drawing, etching and photographing patterns directly onto the sound track area of the film, becoming a pioneer of electronic music long before the invention of the synthesizer. Norman McLaren: Animated Musician celebrates this exploration and presents much never-before-seen work by this master of cinema.

  • Bone Wind Fire
    Bone Wind Fire
    Jill Sharpe 2011 30 min

    This Emmy-nominated feature film is an intimate and evocative journey into the hearts, minds and eyes of Georgia O’Keeffe, Emily Carr and Frida Kahlo - 3 of the 20th century’s most remarkable artists. The film uses the women’s own words, taken from their letters and diaries, to reveal 3 individual creative processes in all their subtle and fascinating variety.

  • Debris
    Debris
    John Bolton 2015 14 min

    This short film is a portrait of Tofino, BC intertidal artist Pete Clarkson as he crafts his most ambitious and personal project to date: a memorial to the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami. He, like so many of us around the world, was deeply affected by the disaster. Years later, as splintered and mangled timber and other objects started to wash ashore, the disaster hit home again for Clarkson, and the inspiration for his memorial was born. In Clarkson’s caring hands, the remnants from the Tohoku region take on a life of their own as he shapes them into a unique public sculpture. The result is an evocative memorial that is a site of remembrance and contemplation, and an emotional bridge connecting an artist, his community and a people an ocean away.

  • Glenn Gould - Off the Record
    Glenn Gould - Off the Record
    Roman Kroitor  &  Wolf Koenig 1959 29 min

    In this short documentary, Canadian concert pianist Glenn Gould enjoys a respite at his lakeside cottage. This is an aspect of Gould previously known only to the collie pacing beside him through the woods, the fishermen resting their oars to hear his piano, and fellow musicians like Franz Kraemer, with whom Gould talks of composition.

  • Stories from Our Land Vol. 2 - Taking Shape
    Stories from Our Land Vol. 2 - Taking Shape
    Sarah McNair-Landry 2013 9 min

    This short film tells the story of Isaci Etidloie, a man well-known in the Arctic for his pedigree and prowess in shaping old rocks. His creations often serve to recount taboo stories and Inuit myths. Stories from Our Land 2.0 is the latest edition of the NFB's Indigenous short film inititiative. This edition helped four Inuit youth hone the creative skills and tell their stories, offering viewers insightful perspectives on life in Nunavut.

  • Revealing Marie Saint Pierre
    Revealing Marie Saint Pierre
    Janice Zolf 2016 38 min

    Revealing Marie Saint Pierre is an art documentary about Quebec fashion designer Marie Saint Pierre. The film gives razor sharp insights into her creative process, and being a woman and an entrepreneur in the exclusive world of luxury fashion. Influenced by childhood friend Riopelle, the internationally renowned Canadian painter and sculptor, Marie Saint Pierre chose fashion to express herself, but as a world-class artist she could have easily become a filmmaker, a painter or a sculptor.

  • Home Cooked Music
    Home Cooked Music
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    Mike Maryniuk 2014 9 min

    This short documentary profiles an imaginative inventor and craftsman who makes whimsical stringed instruments out of unlikely items. In his hands, shovels, rakes, baseball bats, and stop signs become beautiful and functional guitars, violins, banjos, and fiddles.

    After a near-death experience, retired machinist Lorne Collie embarked on his creative journey, and this heartening film offers a folksy, one-of-a-kind portrait of Collie's spirit and talent. Through weathered doc footage and hand-crafted animation, the film shows that Collie is having more fun than he’s had in a long time and feeling more than alive.

  • Dream Magic
    Dream Magic
    Katerina Cizek 2008 6 min

    This revealing portrait of NFB filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin was shown at a gala ceremony in 2008, where Obomsawin received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement. Her work has captured some of the most startling events in Canadian history, including the armed standoff between the Canadian Army and Mohawk warriors in 1993. Her films cross a spectrum of social issues, but they are always human. Obomsawin explains in the interview, "For me, a real documentary is when you're really listening to somebody; they are the ones that will tell you what the story is, not you."

  • Buffy
    Buffy
    John Walker 2010 6 min

    Folk music icon Buffy Sainte-Marie became internationally renowned with her protest song "Universal Soldier." In this short documentary, she candidly discusses her hopes, creative vision and songwriting skills, as well as her role as an Aboriginal activist. Still a vibrant artist fifty years into her career, she keeps her eyes set on the future.

  • Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary
    Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary
    Pepita Ferrari 2008 1 h 37 min

    In this feature-length film on the art of the documentary, director Pepita Ferrari interviews 33 leading documentarians and shows clips from over 50 films. From cinéma-vérité pioneers like Albert Maysles and Michel Brault to mavericks like Errol Morris and Nick Broomfield, it explores the challenges of capturing reality on film. Directors as diverse as Pakistani feminist Sabiha Sumar and new media guru Peter Wintonick reflect on ethical issues and the contested status of the “truth.”

    Featured interviews include German iconoclast Werner Herzog; Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán; British director Kim Longinotto and Alanis Obomsawin, the First Lady of First Nations cinema.

  • Hand-Crafted Cinema Animation Workshop with Caroline Leaf
    Hand-Crafted Cinema Animation Workshop with Caroline Leaf
    Eric Roberts 1998 35 min

    This short film brings together animation workshops led by award-winning independent animator Caroline Leaf. The film, which discusses and demonstrates Leaf’s artisan's approach to narrative filmmaking, explores 3 techniques she pioneered during her 20-year tenure at the NFB: sand, paint-on-glass and scratch animation.