A Hunting Lesson

Winter Days

An animated film based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bash

2003

Imprints

In this non-narrative animated film inspired by composer François Couperin's harpsichord composition "Barricades mystérieuses," Jacques Drouin explore

2004

Ex-Child

The story of a young boy and his father, both of whom are enlisted to fight in the war. The boy's pride soon turns to fear as the bullets whistle over

1994

The Night Boots

The forest can be full of scary creatures, Eliot’s parents caution, but the mystery might be too tempting for a kid who doesn’t want to go to bed.

2024

The Painting

Utilising the Alexeïeff-Parker pinscreen technique, this visually poetic non-narrative film revisits Diego Vélasquez’s 1652 portrait of Queen Mariana

2025

Mindscape

In this short, an artist creates a painting of the landscape he sees, then finds he can literally climb into the picture to see the fantastic world in

1976

Here and the Great Elsewhere

This abstract yet compelling philosophical tale uses the Alexeïeff-Parker pinscreen as a metaphor for the particles that make up the universe. Through

2012

Nightangel

When a man becomes blind, his life is all turned around. He can only use his touch to get around in his house. The objects become enemies. But an ange

1986

REST

When immersed in the contours swelling and waning in the forest of needles, the mundane world drifts away, and we only live to breathe.

2025

Jacques Drouin: In Relief

This documentary is a portrait of the animator of Le Paysagiste, from his childhood in Eastern Quebec to his career at the NFB. Trained at the École d

2009

Trois exercices sur l'écran d'épingles d'Alexeieff

Animated short film made in three parts on the pin screen by Alexeieff-Parker. With these three exercises, director Jacques Drouin experiments with th

1974

high school girl & the magic notebook

Shidou Yuzuki is a second year high school student who cannot find anything she wants to do, and her parents always tell her, "Study! Study!" What app

2022

Opening Night

A poster announcing the opening night of an opera. A crowd of snobs, so called »music lovers« rushes in. The tenor, well aware of his magnificence, ha

1957

Scarecrow

The lone scarecrow has a great desire to befriend birds, but they ignore him. His courage at a certain point completely changed the bird's perspective

1957

On the Meadow

Two men on the meadow fight for one flower.

1957

Ikiteirutte Subarashii!

A short based on the Brothers Grimm's fairy-tale Town Musicians of Bremen.

1972

Vovka and Winter in the Kingdom of Far Far Away

In search of a magic carpet, Vovka travels to the Kingdom of Far Far Away, where preparations for the New Year are underway. Vovka quarrels with Moroz

2021

Student Council Staff Members Movie 2

The student council must grapple with a mix of double-entendres and potent teen hormones.

2021