Watch vimy-ridge lookmovie. In this short animation Damien Hess attempts to connect with the tragedy of the First World War, a conflict that helped define Canada. In this film he uses imagery of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial monument in northern France to summon up names, faces and shadows that are fading from our memory. This film was made as part of the third edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.
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A young boy in a sailor suit plays with three dolls, representing German soldiers. He slowly nods off and in his dreams they come alive.
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Adapting Jaroslav Hasek's raucous satirical novel, and also bringing Josef Lada's equally famous illustrations to garrulous puppet life, posed Trnka o...
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The story of how Aurora Mardiganian (1901-94),a survivor of the Armenian genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire (1915-17),became a Hollywood sil...
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Lightning sketch propaganda stirs outrage about Reims bombing, and features a British bulldog eating the German sausage.
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During a theatrical performance featuring puppets glorifying war, a wounded soldier is taken backstage where he unveils the truth about war.
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The Jockstrap Raiders takes place during World War I in Leeds, England. A group of underdog misfits are excluded from the war due to various abnormali...
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An average soldier is caught up in the cogs of an inhuman war machine during the First World War.