Movies: Susan Gourley

  • 1991
    Strings

    Strings (1991)

    Strings

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    This film explores the distant relationship between an elderly amateur musician, the woman who lives in the apartment above him, and the leaky bathtub that is bothering them both....

    Strings
  • 2006
    Maq and the Spirit of the Woods

    Maq and the Spirit of the Woods (2006)

    Maq and the Spirit of the Woods

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    When an elder in the community offers him a small piece of pipestone, Maq carves a little person out of it. Proud of his work, the boy wants to impress his grandfather and journeys through the woods to find him. Along the path Maq meets a curious tra...

    Maq and the Spirit of the Woods
  • 2009
    A Time There Was: Stories from the Last Days of Kenya Colony

    A Time There Was: Stories from the Last Days of Kenya Colony (2009)

    A Time There Was: Stories from the Last Days of Kenya Colony

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    A look at the Mau Mau Rebellion of the 1950s as experienced by filmmaker Donald McWilliams....

    A Time There Was: Stories from the Last Days of Kenya Colony
  • 2011
    Wild Life

    Wild Life (2011)

    Wild Life

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    An English dreamer experiences both the beauty and harshness of nature when he relocates to the Canadian prairie....

    Wild Life
  • 2012
    Bydlo

    Bydlo (2012)

    Bydlo

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    An allegory of mankind heading for disaster, this animated short is a tragic vision inspired by the 4th movement of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Drawing on the composer’s brilliant ability to evoke work and labour in his music, animator Pa...

    Bydlo
  • 1992
    Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

    Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

    Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

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    A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda....

    Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
  • 2006
    The Sparky Book

    The Sparky Book (2006)

    The Sparky Book

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    In Newfoundland filmmaker Mary Lewis' live action/animation hybrid short film, a talking goldfish tells us the poignant story of his best friend, Sparky the dog, and Sparky's owner, a young girl suffering from a serious illness. The dog lords an unus...

    The Sparky Book
  • 2010
    Waseteg

    Waseteg (2010)

    Waseteg

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    The story of a young Mi'kmaq girl whose name means "the light from the dawn."...

    Waseteg
  • 2007
    Madame Tutli-Putli

    Madame Tutli-Putli (2007)

    Madame Tutli-Putli

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    Madame Tutli-Putli boards the Night Train, weighed down with all her earthly possessions and the ghosts of her past. She travels alone, facing both the kindness and menace of strangers. As day descends into dark, she finds herself caught up in a desp...

    Madame Tutli-Putli
  • 2009
    Land of the Heads

    Land of the Heads (2009)

    Land of the Heads

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    Emile is an unhappy little vampire, doing a job he detests, in a world plunged into perpetual gloom. He serves a despotic mistress who loathes wrinkles, in the most extreme way....

    Land of the Heads
  • 2010
    Flawed

    Flawed (2010)

    Flawed

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    Flawed is nothing less than a beautiful gift from Andrea Dorfman's vivid imagination, a charming little film about very big ideas. Dorfman has the uncanny ability to transform the intensely personal into the wisely universal. She deftly traces her en...

    Flawed
  • 2006
    A Prairie Story

    A Prairie Story (2006)

    A Prairie Story

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    A prairie landscape undergoes a metamorphosis: rural idyll to over-urbanized dystopia. Director Anne Koizumi laments the changing face of her hometown of Calgary in this critique of the bacteria-like spread of suburbia and exurbia. This film was made...

    A Prairie Story
  • 2004
    Accordion

    Accordion (2004)

    Accordion

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    Exploration of the connections between sex, love and technology....

    Accordion
  • 2006
    The Danish Poet

    The Danish Poet (2006)

    The Danish Poet

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    A woman ponders over the strange coincidences that made her forefathers and -mothers meet and create the premises for her becoming the person that she is....

    The Danish Poet
  • 2007
    Balloons

    Balloons (2007)

    Balloons

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    Two little men float into the deep blue sky, tied to balloons. But then each decides the sky belongs to him. This film was made as part of the fourth edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship....

    Balloons
  • 2003
    Inside the Hothouse

    Inside the Hothouse (2003)

    Inside the Hothouse

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    Inside the Hothouse takes an informal look at this NFB experiment, Animation Hothouse, at its halfway point. In a handheld, gritty style, Inside the Hothouse gives the viewer a glimpse into the project and the participants' perspectives....

    Inside the Hothouse
  • 2008
    Drux Flux

    Drux Flux (2008)

    Drux Flux

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    Partly figurative, partly abstract, Drux Flux is an animation film of fast-flowing images showing modern people crushed by industry. Inspired by One-Dimensional Man by the philosopher Herbert Marcus…...

    Drux Flux
  • 2009
    Walk In The Forest

    Walk In The Forest (2009)

    Walk In The Forest

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    Diane Obomsawin's whimsical animated short follows medicine man Walk-in-the-forest on a walk in the woods that leads to the discovery of an intriguing secret world....

    Walk In The Forest
  • 2003
    Oïo

    Oïo (2003)

    Oïo

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    Allegory on the creation of the universe using liquid paint in motion. Oio is a truly unique experience where liquid paint and the cinematographic medium come together to create a painting in motion: a cinepainting! Jets of paint catapulted into the ...

    Oïo
  • 2004
    Inside the Hothouse 2

    Inside the Hothouse 2 (2004)

    Inside the Hothouse 2

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    An informal look into the personalities and frenzy behind the second edition of the NFB Animation Hothouse. The six Hothouse filmmakers and their NFB collaborators comment on the nature of auteur animation, the place and role of the NFB in that world...

    Inside the Hothouse 2