Arthur Lipsett Trailers

Arthur Lipsett (May 13, 1936 – May 1, 1986) was a Canadian avant-garde director of short collage films. Lipsett's meticulous editing and combination of audio and visual montage was both groundbreaking and influential.

Most Popular Arthur Lipsett Trailers

Total trailers found: 18

Fluxes Trailer (1968)

01 January 1968

Fluxes is Arthur Lipsett's view of the human condition and the mixed-up planet where humans are found.

A Trip Down Memory Lane Trailer (1966)

28 August 1966

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

N-Zone Trailer (1970)

01 January 1970

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

September Five at Saint-Henri Trailer (1962)

05 September 1962

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

Free Fall Trailer (1964)

01 January 1964

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 world.

Very Nice, Very Nice Trailer (1961)

01 January 1961

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 anxieties we want to forget.

Opening Speech Trailer (1969)

02 January 1969

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

21-87 Trailer (1963)

24 April 1963

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 Film Board (where he worked as an animator), combined with his own black and white 16mm footage shot on the streets of Montreal and New York City, among other locations.

Imperial Sunset Trailer (1967)

01 January 1967

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

Appetizers Trailer (1960)

01 January 1960

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

Data for Decision Trailer (1968)

01 January 1968

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

Strange Codes Trailer (1975)

01 May 1975

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