Arts - NFB

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A selection of films on the arts, including biographies of artists.

Audacious

Janice Zolf
2016 | 5 min
That Higher Level

John Bolton
2018 | 1 h 14 min
Oscar

Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre
2016 | 12 min
Eleven Moving Moments with Evelyn Lambart

Donald McWilliams
2017 | 1 h 3 min
Unarmed Verses

Charles Officer
2016 | 1 h 25 min
Uniquely Viola

Rodolphe Caron
2016 | 1 h 15 min
F.R. Scott: Rhyme and Reason

Donald Winkler
1982 | 57 min
Klee Wyck

Grant Crabtree
1946 | 15 min
Max in the Morning

David Bairstow
1965 | 27 min
In Pieces

Paule Baillargeon
2011 | 1 h 21 min
Bone Wind Fire

Jill Sharpe
2011 | 30 min
The Portrait

Hubert Davis
2012 | 41 min
Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment

Peter Wintonick
1999 | 1 h 42 min
Nollywood Babylon

Ben Addelman & Samir Mallal
2008 | 1 h 14 min
Donald Brittain: Filmmaker

Kent Martin
1992 | 1 h 34 min
Mordecai Richler: The Writer and His Roots

1983 | 21 min
Margaret Laurence, First Lady of Manawaka

Robert Duncan
1978 | 52 min
Family: A Loving Look at CBC Radio

Donald Brittain & Robert Duncan
1991 | 50 min
Lost Action: Trace

Marlene Millar, Crystal Pite, …
2011 | 3 min
The Performer

Donald Ginsberg
1959 | 58 min
West Wind

Graham McInnes
1944 | 20 min
Spirits of Havana

Bay Weyman & Luis Osvaldo Garcia
2000 | 1 h 30 min
In Love and Anger: Milton Acorn - Poet

Kent Martin
1984 | 53 min
Kate and Anna McGarrigle

Caroline Leaf
1981 | 28 min
The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein

Joyce Borenstein
1992 | 29 min
Glenn Gould - Off the Record

Roman Kroitor & Wolf Koenig
1959 | 29 min
Glenn Gould - On the Record

Roman Kroitor & Wolf Koenig
1959 | 29 min
Paul Kane Goes West

Gerald Budner
1972 | 14 min
The Black Squirrel

Fadel Saleh
1999 | 57 min
Stravinsky

Roman Kroitor & Wolf Koenig
1966 | 49 min
The Cirque: An American Odyssey

Nathalie Petrowski
1989 | 50 min
Poet: Irving Layton Observed

Donald Winkler
1986 | 52 min
Horse Drawn Magic

Dorothy Todd Henaut
1979 | 27 min
Notman's World

Albert Kish
1989 | 29 min
Ballet Adagio

Norman McLaren
1972 | 10 min
On the Road with La Mouette

Philippe d' Hauterive & François Aubry
2001 | 52 min
Remembering Arthur

Martin Lavut
2006 | 1 h 29 min
I Can Make Art ... Like Andrew Qappik

Jane Churchill
2005 | 11 min
I Can Make Art ... Like Kai Chan

Jane Churchill
2005 | 11 min
Walking

Ryan Larkin
1968 | 5 min
RiP! A Remix Manifesto

Brett Gaylor
2008 | 1 h 26 min
Ryan

Chris Landreth
2004 | 13 min
Bryan Adams: Bare Bones

David Battistella
2010 | 5 min
Mindscape

Jacques Drouin
1976 | 7 min
Pas de deux

Norman McLaren
1968 | 13 min
Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry

Donald Brittain & John Kramer
1976 | 1 h 39 min
The Stratford Adventure

Morten Parker
1954 | 39 min
Krzysztof Wodiczko: Projections

Derek May
1991 | 53 min
Maud Lewis: A World Without Shadows

Diane Beaudry
1976 | 10 min
Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak

John Feeney
1963 | 19 min
Varley

Allan Wargon
1953 | 15 min
I Don't Have to Work that Big

Michael McKennirey
1973 | 27 min
Finding Farley

Leanne Allison
2009 | 1 h 2 min
Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen

Donald Brittain & Don Owen
1965 | 44 min
Flamenco at 5:15

Cynthia Scott
1983 | 29 min
Ten Million Books: An Introduction to Farley Mowat

Andy Thomson
1981 | 25 min
Margaret Atwood: Once in August

Michael Rubbo
1984 | 57 min