Ron Alexander Movies

Two ballet dancers perform a dance enhanced with surreal after-image visuals.

An engineer from Paris flies to Montreal, partly on business, partly in search of parents displaced by World War II, and partly because of the...

In the fall of 1964, just over a year before his death, Buster Keaton traveled to Canada to make The Railrodder, a short subject that now enjoys a...

A Trip Down Memory Lane is a 1965 experimental collage film by Arthur Lipsett, created by editing together images and sound clips from over fifty...

At the instigation of the filmmakers, the young men of the Ile-aux-Coudres in the middle of the St-Lawrence River try as a memorial to their...

Three politically incorrect lesbians talk about being lesbian.

A classic NFB documentary about the Golden Gloves boxing tournament, the Canadian amateur's hope for success in the boxing world. This Gilles Groulx...

A woman's peculiar religious convictions lead her on a self-destructive path.

A view from a helicopter of the ten Canadian provinces in 1966. The result is a big, beautiful and engrossing bird's-eye portrait of the country....

This short film portrays the story of singer Paul Anka, who rose from obscurity to become the idol of millions of adolescent fans around the world....

Set in a neighborhood laundromat, "Laundromat" is a Romantic drama-edy that follows a young gay couple, who after a chance encounter with an older...

The story of two young women who go to the city to work in a dress factory, and who share a room to ease their expenses and their loneliness. The...

On Christmas Eve, snowplow driver Leo races to clear the streets of Montreal and complete his holiday shopping in time for midnight Mass. The feature...

A neurotic man relates his unsuccessful attempt to open a simple savings account at a bank.

This short documentary shows the reactions of European immigrants as they land in Halifax at the beginning of the 1960s. From the port, we follow...

Four years after Pour la suite du monde (1963), director Pierre Perrault asks Alexis Tremblay if he'll agree to travel with his wife Marie to the...

A boy's carved boat travels through the Canadian wilderness until it reaches the ocean.

A teenage boy rebels against parental authority and must face a harsh reality when he tries to live on his own.

The epic story of the opening of the Canadian West and the drought that brought the Depression in the thirties. This is the saga of a family who left...

This short documentary (the second of two parts) follows Glenn Gould to New York City. There, we see the renowned Canadian concert pianist kidding...