Boards of Canada national film board of canada animation

[homecharlie]

I remember there was a thread about the Film Board website a while back, but I was having a hard time finding it just now. If you're unaware, the National Film Board of Canada put a bunch of their animations online for free viewing.

 

http://www.nfb.ca/film/carried_away

 

This animation has sounds of children laughing mixed into the soundtrack that sounded very familiar, though I can't place them to a particular Boards of Canada song. It's generally very BoC-ish (including the great synth soundtrack), so if nothing else I thought people here might enjoy it.

[Guest ruiagnelo]

Lovely animation, beautiful, sweet music. Loved every second of it.

This particular work makes it pretty clear to understand how much were BoC inspired by this images and this sounds.

[ghOsty]

Awesome music and visuals, definitely can see/hear how BoC was inspired and influenced by stuff like this, I'll have to go through all of these sometime...

[Guest ruiagnelo]

Indeed, i must spend some time on NFBs webpage.

Have you found similar films/short films/documentaries, homecharlie?

[homecharlie]

I've spent a good amount of time on the site... I like using their explore feature to search through videos tagged animated and/or experimental. I posted this one because it was the most overtly Boc-like video I've seen.

 

My favorite video is Mindscape: http://www.nfb.ca/film/Mindscape

 

Another couple of good ones are Quilt (http://www.nfb.ca/film/quilt) and Pas de Deux (http://www.nfb.ca/film/pas_de_deux_en), the latter of which won a BAFTA. I'm sure that there are tons of hidden gems in the site that I haven't discovered yet.

[essines]

I grew up watching these in school and on TV. Noobs.

[YO303]

I grew up watching these in school and on TV. Noobs.

 

[mcbpete]

My favorite video is Mindscape: http://www.nfb.ca/film/Mindscape

Yep, mine too - I've watched it God knows how many times. Here's another one I loved when I first saw it on Channel 4 a few years ago -

 

[vimeo]23106985[/vimeo]

[chenGOD]

I grew up watching these in school and on TV. Noobs.

 

I grew up before you watching these in school and on TV. Noob.

 

 

 

The classics:

[DerWaschbar]

It would be nice to see a physical release of some of these old soundtracks. Lots of them are no doubt disintrigrating on tapes.

[murve33]

Not an animation, but I've liked this one for a while.

 

http://www.nfb.ca/film/neighbours_voisins

 

50's Electronic music for the win.