Wolf Koenig Movies

A detailed retrospective of animation and animation techniques at the National Film Board of Canada.

The unusual story of Nose and Tina, 2 people in love. He is employed as a brakeman, she as a sex worker.

The misbehaving public performs for the camera in a half-hour miscellany of misdeeds. In a behind-the-scenes look at the hour-by-hour operation of a...

The maple leaf on the Canadian flag turns into two profiles that illustrate the many relationships between people.

A description of placer gold mining in the Yukon. East of Dawson City giant dredges cut deep into the creek beds, leaving behind monstrous coils of...

Canadians in search of the national identity will not find it fully fleshed in this film. An animated cartoon, it sees Canadians as pragmatists,...

This short film brings together animated interpretations of 4 poems by great Canadian wordsmiths: “From the Hazel Bough” by Earle Birney,...

This film illustrates the theory that a sudden change in climate caused by a stellar explosion resulted in the extinction of the dinosaurs.

A Canadian prairie farm family has a tough beginning on their new farm.

A chain-smoking woman has an encounter with a vampire.

An incident from the early days of Québec's quiet revolution, tailor-made for the cartoonist. It is the story of a Montréal commuter...

This documentary is an informal portrait of the great modern composer Igor Stravinsky. Proudly American, though still very much an Old World figure...

A lonely woodcarver longs for a son, so he builds a wooden puppet and names it Spinnolio

Men struggle with day-to-day tasks in a world where all of the women have disappeared.

A study, in film animation, of a day in the life of a housewife, described without words, with a minimum of detail but with a perception all the more...

A suave safecracker offers his reflections on wintertime unemployment in Canada.

An unconventional version of The Christmas Carol.

A young designer, Selma Bryant-Fournier, starts her career in a large clothing manufacturing firm in Montreal. She hopes to design clothes for mass...

In this animated short, simple geometric forms as thin and flat as playing cards constantly form and re-form to the sound of the koto, a 13-stringed...

The history of nuns mirrors the history of all women -- in what we are taught about the past, women are almost invisible. Although today's one...