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Technology (32)

Communications (8)

  • Accordion
    Accordion
    Michèle Cournoyer 2004 5 min
    This animated short explores the connections between sex, love and technology. A woman connects to the Internet. She not only embraces technology but surrenders to it entirely as she sends her entire body and soul to her electronic lover. In this world of Pandora's boxes, sexual desire and dehumanizing machine intertwine till they're finally and brutally disconnected.
  • Bandwidth
    Bandwidth
    René Jodoin 1960 11 min
    This film combines colour, animation and sound to clarify principles of radio wave transmission. It illustrates how antennas propagate radio waves and how they may be adapted to increase the bandwidth of transmissions. (The film was released for general use as a public service by the Royal Canadian Air Force.)
  • Country Song
    Country Song
    Warwick Thornton 2007 3 min
    This short documentary is about an Aboriginal man from Australia who compares communication the old way and the modern communication devices he uses today. Part of MobiDOCS: Confessions in a Digital Age series.
  • Directivity
    Directivity
    René Jodoin 1960 12 min
    Combining colour, animation and sound to clarify principles of radio-wave transmission, this film illustrates how antennas propagate radio waves and how they may be adapted to increase the directivity of transmissions. The theoretical concepts are emphasized.
  • The Stamp
    The Stamp
    Iris Boudreau  &  Francis Papillon 2019 2 min
    Iris wants to send her grandfather a birthday card. Touching, right? But Cathon doesn't want her friend to raid her collection looking for a stamp. Did someone really once pay $9.5 million for a single stamp?
  • Propagation
    Propagation
    René Jodoin 1960 13 min
    Combining colour, animation and sound to clarify principles of radio-wave transmission, this film illustrate how antennas propagate radio waves.
  • Square Roots
    Square Roots
    Patrick Doyon 2006 2 min
    In this short animated film a robot rambles about frenetically, receiving countless electronic messages through his antenna every second. Despite his fatigue and stress, he never slows down. The only thing that might bring his frantic journey to an end is a traffic accident.

    Produced as part of the third edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.
  • Zulu Time
    Zulu Time
    Jonny Silver 1999 52 min
    Best known as the amicable Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto, Derrick de Kerckhove is at the core of a world think-tank dedicated to probing the rapid changes of our global village. The documentary Zulu Time follows this "wired man" in his globe-trotting career as media prophet and probes into some of the most fascinating questions confronting us in our new electronic galaxy. As the spiritual inheritor of McLuhan's thought, de Kerckhove lives in perpetual oscillation between himself and his double, Marshall McLuhan, with whom he has become publicly identified and virtually assimilated.

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