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Seasons (8)

  • Trees
    Trees
    Robert Doucet 1978 1 min
    Life in Canada is reflected by people's comments on trees as a tree is shown undergoing seasonal changes.
  • The Colour of Life
    The Colour of Life
    J.V. Durden 1955 23 min
    This film probes the perennial miracle of the growth of a seedling, the seasonal upsurge of life in a forest giant, and the mysterious alchemy of a single leaf. Presented in magnified dimension through time-lapse photography and animated diagrams, a maple leaf and segments of a tree serve to illustrate the physiological processes that go on in all plants.
  • The End of the World in Four Seasons
    The End of the World in Four Seasons
    Paul Driessen 1995 12 min
    Animator Paul Driessen sets eight interlocking tales to the music of Vivaldi's Four Seasons in this animated short. Toying with traditional storytelling structures, Driessen allows his stories to unfold simultaneously in eight different windows on screen. Like Vivaldi, he uses the seasons to delineate the work.
  • It's Snow
    It's Snow
    Gayle Thomas 1974 5 min
    Colour cut-out animation inspired by the shape of snowflakes and touched with the airy magic of these fragile designs. While music tinkles invitingly, snowflakes roll and whirl, pulse and glitter, shining with the many hues of twinkling lights. Made without words, this is a joyous film to please the fancy and captivate eye and ear.
  • Novembre
    Novembre
    Robert Nichol 1970 9 min
    Ce court métrage documentaire révèle la vie secrète de l'arbre et du marais, des massifs hantés d'oiseaux et des tanières toutes chaudes de la présence d'animaux aux yeux phosphorescents, bref tout l'enchantement de la nature sous les feuilles et les premières neiges. Dans ce poème visuel aux images inoubliables, l'homme, citadin ou campagnard, se plie au rythme de la saison d'automne. Film sans paroles.
  • Printemps Now! (English Version)
    Printemps Now! (English Version)
    Jean Jean 2019 15 min
    Inspired by Berlin: Symphony of a great city, Printemps Now! is a cinematographic poem, an audiovisual symphony of the city of Montreal transitioning from winter to spring.
  • Terra
    Terra
    Alan Pakarnyk 2005 4 min
    Animator Alan Pakarnyk uses radiant colour and simple composition in a seemingly random kaleidoscope of motion to depict nature at work. Sweeping the viewer through a whirlwind cycle of the seasons, the film crashes violently from one image to the next. Terra’s images are matched by a surging score from Winnipeg composer Randolph Peters. Without words.
  • Winter in Canada
    Winter in Canada
    Guy L. Coté 1953 18 min
    This film shows the influence of winter on the lives of Canadian people generally and, in particular, on the varied activities and experiences of two boys residing in widely separated localities, one in a Québec Laurentian town and the other on a ranch in the Alberta foothills.