Arthur Lipsett Movies

This short satirical film, created entirely from archival footage, is about the British Empire—on which the sun never sets. The majority of the...

Norman McLaren attempts to give the opening speech for the first Montreal International Film Festival, but his microphone won't cooperate.

Portrait of the early era of computing which examines the workings of a new and mysterious machine: the Canada Land Inventory Geo-information System....

Arthur Lipsett's first film is an avant-garde blend of photography and sound. It looks behind the business-as-usual face we put on life and shows...

This short film from Arthur Lipsett is an abstract collage of snippets from discarded footage found by Lipsett in the editing room of the National...

An experimental film from Arthur Lipsett, Free Fall is an assortment of film trimmings assembled to make a wry comment on humankind in today’s...

This short documentary studies the fate reserved to young people through the ages. Drawing from paintings, archival footage and various other...

Arthur Lipsett’s Strange Codes is the legendary found-footage filmmaker’s first and only independent film, made after his departure from...

Documentary short, directed and edited by Arthur Lipsett in 1963 for the National Film Board of Canada

Documentary short, directed by Arthur Lipsett in 1965 for the National Film Board of Canada

Documentary short, directed by Arthur Lipsett in 1965 for the National Film Board of Canada

In this experimental collage film, Arthur Lipsett reworks over fifty years of newsreel footage into a surreal audiovisual montage of...

Documentary short, directed by Arthur Lipsett in 1965 for the National Film Board of Canada

Arthur Lipsett’s N-Zone is the longest, loosest and last of the collage films he produced at Canada’s National Film Board (NFB). It marks...

This short film is a series of vignettes of life in Saint-Henri, a Montreal working-class district, on the first day of school. From dawn to...

Fluxes is Arthur Lipsett's view of the human condition and the mixed-up planet where humans are found. As in his other films (Very Nice, Very Nice;...

A collection of one-minute cartoons produced by the National Film Board of Canada animators for government sponsors. Showcasing a playful selection...

Documentary short, directed by Arthur Lipsett in 1965 for the National Film Board of Canada

Documentary short, directed by Arthur Lipsett in 1965 for the National Film Board of Canada