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Arthur Lipsett (May 13, 1936 – May 1, 1986) was a Canadian filmmaker with the National Film Board of Canada. [1] His short, avant-garde collage films, which he described as "neither underground nor conventional”, contain elements of narrative, documentary, experimental collage, and visual essay.
Feb 15, 2012 · Arthur Lipsett, filmmaker (born at Montréal 13 May 1936; died April 1986), worked at the National Film Board of Canada (1958- 70) where he was one of very few to make experimental films. Arthur Lipsett's most famous film is Very Nice, Very Nice, made in 1961.
Oct 5, 2016 · Through his astute manipulation of sound and image, Lipsett succeeded in transforming the ordinary into the odd. Mashed up, spliced and altered, images of the mundane take on a supernatural quality, as if encountered for the first time. This is Lipsett’s truest gift.
Arthur Lipsett was born on 13 May 1936 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was a director and editor, known for N-Zone (1970), A Trip Down Memory Lane (1965) and Free Fall (1964).
- Director, Editor, Cinematographer
- May 13, 1936
- Arthur Lipsett
- May 1, 1986
Arthur Lipsett is one of the few filmmakers—alongside Alanis Obomsawin, Kathleen Shannon, Norman McLaren and Willie Dunn—who will forever reside in the pantheon of NFB artists. One of the most enigmatic yet celebrated directors who ever worked at the Board, Lipsett was born in Montreal on May 13, 1936, and died in the same city only 50 ...
The ghost of experimental film in the National Film Board documentary machine, Arthur Lipsett was one of Canadian cinema’s most original artists and a key figure in the development of experimental cinema. Lipsett studied art and design at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art.
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Jul 26, 2004 · Almost two decades after his death Arthur Lipsett remains an anomaly within Canadian and avant-garde film histories. Uneasily oscillating between an artisanal tradition and the National Film Board’s institutional mandate “to interpret Canada for Canadians”, he was a popular experimental filmmaker whose eccentric, satirical collage films ...
