Derek Lamb Movies

A story about two symbolic characters who sway to the song Alouette.

An egg desperately tries to prevent being hatched. In this animated short from the Canada Vignette series, learn how societies in evolution are often...

A freewheeling cinematic experience, this film is the work of two filmmakers who relate their perceptions of each other through their respective...

A visual interpretation of the poem "Riverdale Lion" by Canadian poet and essayist John Robert Colombo.

The metamorphosis of a map of Canada into human forms who share the natural resources to the rhythm of a dance.

This vignette illustrates the variety of professions, people and technical procedures required by the filmmaking process.

A hapless husband neglects to clear the icy walk, which leads to the mailman slipping and breaking his neck. A comedy of errors results from his...

Canuck anti-drugs propaganda film about how glue huffing and pill popping and weed smoking leads to child prostitution. Or something. The backstory...

An animated fable for children showing that things can be malignant or benign depending on how they are used--with good or evil intent.

The inhabitants of a village learn to overcome their fears of the unknown.

This is the story of the first French settlers in North America, who spent their first winter on an island in the Bay of Fundy. Despite overwhelming...

This animated film illustrates the terrible journey, the back-breaking work, the exotic and gaudy city of Dawson, and the turmoil and triumphs of the...

A selection of publicity clips mounted together in one film to show the techniques of NFB animators. As in Hors-d'oeuvre, these "quickie" films were...

This lively satire uses animation and a pseudo-documentary style to depict Canada's search for a national identity. The National Scream explains,...

This film describes the journey of nomadic Asian people to North America via a land bridge.

A disgruntled Uncle Sam complains that nobody listens to him anymore, and what's more, he doesn't even know what's going on up there. "I thought we...

Historical events are related through the medium of simulated news broadcasting in 1878.