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NFB Pause | A Hidden John Coltrane Album, RediscoveredSimon Rouillard 2019 2 min"The only known film soundtrack scored by jazz legend John Coltrane was Gilles Groulx’s classic of Quebecois cinema, The Cat in the Bag. Previously hidden in plain sight, this score is now available to the world. What do these recordings represent in Coltrane's body of work?" -
NFB Pause | Felix & Paul StudiosSimon Rouillard 2018 1 minIn Gymnasia, @felixandpaul helped to bring puppets and a manufactured environment to life through the magic of virtual reality.
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NFB Pause with Theodore Ushev and Rossif SutherlandSimon Rouillard 2020 1 minWhat does the collaboration between a voice actor and director look like for an animated film? Actor Rossif Sutherland and filmmaker Theodore Ushev talk about the intimacy required to animate life into The Physics of Sorrow.
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NFB Pause with Rossif SutherlandSimon Rouillard 2020 1 minActor Rossif Sutherland on lending his voice to Theodore Ushev's poetic The Physics of Sorrow, the condition of being "constant immigrants", and working with his father, Donald Sutherland.
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NFB Pause with Bruce Alcock and Jeremy MendesSimon Rouillard 2021 2 minThe new mobile experience Far Away From Far Away takes us to the eastern edge of Canada, on Fogo Island. Meet Creative Directors Bruce Alcock and Jeremy Mendes, who discuss interactive storytelling, the Fogo Process and why they decided to shoot on the iPhone.
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NFB Pause with Vincent Morisset and Sean MichaelsSimon Rouillard 2020 2 min"It’s like a gift exchange. People give us a small part of themselves, and in return we give them an experience that's truly different and unique.” With Motto, director Vincent Morisset and author Sean Michaels have developed an innovative new way to tell a story on your phone. Now, it's your turn to add to the narrative."
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NFB Pause | John Coltrane Meets Gilles GroulxSimon Rouillard 2019 1 minIn the summer of 1964, Quebecois filmmaker Gilles Groulx traveled to New Jersey to meet legendary jazz musician John Coltrane. The result: a history making soundtrack to a now classic French-Canadian film.
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NFB Pause with Theodore UshevSimon Rouillard 2020 1 minOscar®-nominated filmmaker Theodore Ushev reveals his "extremely personal and imperfect" approach to work, and the seven-year process of making The Physics of Sorrow.
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NFB Pause | The ProcessionSimon Rouillard 2019 1 minAn homage to Art Deco aesthetics in black, white, and pink, The Procession considers loss and love in style. Meet the creators behind this work of art.
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NFB Pause with Dany LaferrièreSimon Rouillard 2020 1 min“This city is the beating heart of my literature.”
Follow Dany Laferrière as he visits the exhibition dedicated to his life and work in Montreal’s Quartier des spectacles. -
NFB Pause | Loïc DarsesSimon Rouillard 2020 1 min"Our generation is often described as apolitical, lazy, always on our phones, and so on. I felt that wasn’t a fair portrait."
Loïc Darses’ documentarygives a voice to 17 young, diverse Quebecers, to express their views on culture, politcs, and the legacy of the 1995 referendum. -
NFB Pause: Making Art in a PandemicSimon Rouillard 2021 4 minWhat is it like to make art during a global pandemic? After one year of living under COVID-19, four creators from the NFB's The Curve project share how their daily lives (and creative process) have been turned upside down by this unprecedented crisis.
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NFB Pause | Christopher AuchterOdessa Shuquaya & Simon Rouillard 2019 1 minRevisit a moment in Haida renaissance with director Christopher Auchter's Now Is the Time; on the day that artist Robert Davidson carved the first new totem pole on Haida Gwaii in almost a century. "
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NFB Pause with Félix Dagenais and Nicola LemaySimon Rouillard 2020 1 minFrom Haiti to Montreal, discover novelist Dany Laferrière's story through his drawings in L’Exil vaut le voyage. Watch Félix Dagenais and Nicola Lemay discuss an exhibition dedicated to life and work of Laferrière in this NFB Pause.
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NFB Pause | Into the LightSimon Rouillard 2020 2 minAïssata Cissé et Christiane Eméssé Kafui Zanou ne se doutaient pas que leur nouvelle vie au Canada serait assombrie par de la violence conjugale. Dans un nouveau documentaire signé Gentille M. Assih, elles racontent avec éloquence comment elles sont parvenues à Sortir de l'ombre.
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NFB Pause with Colourist Sylvie Marie FortierSimon Rouillard 2022 3 minLearn about the restoration and digitization process of the NFB's vast film collection with professional colourist Sylvie Marie Fortier.
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NFB Pause with Sophie Jarvis and Alicia EisenSimon Rouillard 2022 2 min
Co-directors Alicia Eisen and Sophie Jarvis talk about how they harnessed the magic of stop motion animation to bring Zeb's Spider to life.
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NFB Pause with Beatriz CarvalhoSimon Rouillard 2022 2 minFor her short Alambic film Solid Ground, animator-illustrator Beatriz Carvalho returns to her native home of Brazil—a personal travelogue that reveals the thoughts of an expatriate returning to her native land.
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NFB Pause with Bren López ZepedaSimon Rouillard 2022 2 min"It's a film about metaphysical transformation, from grief to hope." With her comic book-inspired approach, Bren López Zepeda addresses resilience, reconstruction and rebirth in her Alambic short Modern Alchemy.
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NFB Pause with Pietro GaglianoSimon Rouillard 2020 2 min"In the dream-like world of Agence: you're not just an observer: you determine the plot. A dynamic film that merges cinematic storytelling, artificial intelligence, and user interactivity, Agence is never the same twice. Go behind the scenes of this boundary-pushing project with creator Pietro Galiano. Co-produced with @Transitional Forms."
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NFB Pause | Chris Lavis & Maciek SzczerbowskiSimon Rouillard 2019 1 minStep into the stillness of an abandoned school and enter Gymnasia, a place where the ghostly ephemera of a lost childhood await you.
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NFB Pause with Laurie Rousseau-NeptonSimon Rouillard 2023 1 min"Girls have to take up space in the sciences. We're here and we matter!" Meet Laurie Rousseau-Nepton, astrophysicist, inspiring role model, and host of our upcoming documentary series North Star.
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NFB Pause with Bogdan Anifrani-FedachSimon Rouillard 2022 2 minWith his Alambic short By Wind and Tide, animator Bogdan Anifrani-Fedach takes a deep experimental dive into the birth of an idea—how it takes shape, how it is released.
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NFB Pause with Anne-Marie BousquetSimon Rouillard 2022 1 minMeet Anne-Marie Bousquet, producer for the new experimental NFB film lab Alambic, offering emerging artists the opportunity to craft original visual stories in the space of a few months.
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NFB Pause with AhnahktsipiitaaTrevor Solway & Simon Rouillard 2023 3 minIn THIS IS NOT A CEREMONY, writer and director Ahnahktsipiitaa (Colin Van Loon) takes us to a place where past, present and future are one; where colonial rules are forgotten; and where we can finally get to the truth of the matter.
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NFB Pause with Gentille M. AssihSimon Rouillard 2020 2 minWith her documentary Into The Light, Togolese filmmaker Gentille M. Assih invites us into an intimate world of strong women who have survived domestic violence, and their empowering stories of liberation. [LINK to film]
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NFB Pause with Elle–Máijá TailfeathersSimon Rouillard 2022 30 s"Every day that I was able to document my community was such an honour." Filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers on witnessing the collective strength, love, and healing in the Kainai First Nation, a Blackfoot community facing the impacts of an overdose epidemic.
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NFB Pause with Kevin SetteeKevin Settee & Simon Rouillard 2021 2 min“It’s important for Indigenous people to be telling stories in Indigenous communities. I felt comfortable doing stories around Lake Winnipeg because I know this is where my family comes from.”
In The Lake Winnipeg Project, Anishinaabe/Cree director Kevin Settee takes an “own-voices” approach to storytelling —giving his community the opportunity to tell their own stories. " -
NFB Pause: RegenerationSimon Rouillard 2023 3 min
Regeneration is a journey into the heart of nature's power. Showing at Montreal's Jardin Botanique, the film tells the story of plants regenerating a piece of land.
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NFB Pause: Filmmaking in LabradorSimon Rouillard 2022 3 min"The more Inuit filmmakers we have out there telling stories about Inuit, the more that we can see ourselves reflected back in the media, the more that we can feel that we have the power to tell our stories too." Meet Ossie Michelin and Jennie Williams, two Inuit filmmakers who have decided to share unique stories and traditions from the Labrador Inuit.
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NFB Pause with Courtney MontourSimon Rouillard 2021 2 min"Mary was a Mohawk woman from Kahnawake, the same community that I'm from. She is one of the key women to challenge discrimination against Indigenous women in Canada's Indian Act." Mohawk filmmaker Courtney Montour describes her new documentary on Mary Two-Axe Earley, whose fight for the rights of First Nations women made her a pivotal figure in Canada’s women’s rights movement.
