NFB documentary about street artist

 Posted by on 10 March 2009  Modern Life
Mar 102009
 

roadswroth

When I posted about “street art” a little while ago, including Montrealer Roadsworth, I didn’t know that the National Film Board of Canada was about to present a documentary about him.

There’s a six-minute trailer for the film, “Roadsworth: Crossing the Line” over at the NFB website, and embedded below. It looks great!

As an aside, let me just say that I’ve never been to the NFB website before, but it looks like there’s lots of great stuff there. Bookmarked!

(originally spotted at BB, where they just ripped the trailer into their own “BoingBoing Video”)

Grant Hamilton

  • Colin Corneau

    The NFB putting decades of movies online is probably one of the most amazing arts/culture thing to happen in years.

    Guy Maddin recently lauded the move, and expressed his amazement at the quality of films free for the viewing, in talking about his last film (“My Winnipeg”, which is amazing and available for rental at the Blockbuster in Brandon)

    • http://www.absurdintellectual.com/ Grant Hamilton

      I can’t say enough about their website, actually. It’s full of lots of little shorts that you vaguely remember seeing as a child in school, or the “vignettes” that used to play on TV. It’s a real treasure.