Rick Raxlen Movies
- 1971
Anger After Death
Anger After Death01971HD
A film mingling documentary and dramatic elements to portray the effects of the threat of chemical and biological warfare on the contemporary...
- 1974
Running Time
Running Time01974HD
This feature film is an exotic romp through the ’60s in song and dance. A fantasy that pokes fun not only at some hallowed institutions but at...
- 1999
Slippage
Slippage01999HD
In the dark winter of 1995, Linda Giles, a Victoria-based installation artist, had a show at the old XChanges Gallery on North Park Street, in...
- 1988
Horses in Winter
Horses in Winter01988HD
Reflections of a man who as a young boy spent his summers in a small Canadian town.
- 2020
Sea Horses and Flying Fish
Sea Horses and Flying Fish02020HD
A one-minute animation treat that celebrates the art of sound poetry as Christian Bök recites words from Hugo Ball, one of the leading pioneers...
- 1972
Mirage
Mirage01972HD
An intriguing inside-out view of moving figures and images, made by using a color negative print. Figures and faces appear in a shimmering haze....
- 2020
Kanga vs Werewolf
Kanga vs Werewolf02020HD
"Done on cels almost entirely. I rotoscoped werewolves and cops and babies and animals and maidens-in-distress and put on a dub reggae track by my...
- 2020
Think Before You Think: A Portrait of Rick Raxlen
Think Before You Think: A Portrait of Rick Raxlen02020HD
"Think Before You Think" is a portrait of film poet, animator and artist Rick Raxlen. Shot on 16mm film and digital video at his Victoria, BC home...
- 1984
Duck Talk
Duck Talk01984HD
A short, sweet tape. Kind of painterly in its use of camera as it moves in a fluid way over a set that consists of a white picket fence, a plastic...
- 1984
Pure Mutation
Pure Mutation01984HD
A biology lab circa 1920, becomes colourized as the camera engages in a number of pans past strange forms in bottles and under glass. This is the...
- 2014
Haunted House
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The re-animation via rotoscope of parts of Bud Fischers SLICK SLEUTHS (1928) into a loopform.
- 2020
Fish Don't Talk
Fish Don't Talk02020HD
"I am sent to camp as a nine year old. I cannot swim, and my parents have gone to Europe for six weeks! It is 1954, and I have not been away from...
- 1975
Earthware
Earthware01975HD
This short, impressionistic film takes us to Nigeria, Japan, Mexico and India, where craftsmen work clay to produce ritual vessels and everyday...
- 1999
U - Champions
U - Champions01999HD
"Mutt and Jeff meet Felix in a battle for the letter "U". Using old black and white cartoons and contact-printed 35 mm film that I scratched on, I...
- 2010
Mumbles
Mumbles02010HD
Raxlen's hand-drawn animation sits in with Oscar Peterson.
- 1988
Tongue Tied
Tongue Tied01988HD
Part of a trilogy that started with Grey's Lullaby, Tongue Tied was shot and processed at E.T.C. and set aside for three or four years. It deals with...
- 2009
Rocka-Lula-Hula
Rocka-Lula-Hula02009HD
Hula dancing. Animation; mixed media.
- 2002
Deadpan
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Described as "the jauntiest meat-is-murder movie ever made" and "irrational," "Deadpan" deals with dinner-table angst from the fifties. Laughter is...
- 2008
Frottage/Dommage/Fromage 2 Vous
Frottage/Dommage/Fromage 2 Vous02008HD
Clint Eastwood whistles with Kyle. "The most engaging work in the program, creating such a heightened sense of awareness and connection to the...
- 1996
The Strange Blues of Cowboy Red
The Strange Blues of Cowboy Red01996HD
A portrait of male mid-life crisis as told through the story of a frustrated poetry teacher--and sometime madcap radio deejay--who's fond memories of...