Boards of Canada national film board of canada animation

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.

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.

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...

Indeed, i must spend some time on NFBs webpage.

Have you found similar films/short films/documentaries, 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.

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

  On 12/24/2011 at 8:44 PM, essines said:

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

  On 12/24/2011 at 8:41 PM, homecharlie said:

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]

  On 12/24/2011 at 8:44 PM, essines said:

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:

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

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.