Rick Raxlen Movies

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...

A film mingling documentary and dramatic elements to portray the effects of the threat of chemical and biological warfare on the contemporary...

Reflections of a man who as a young boy spent his summers in a small Canadian town.

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...

This short, impressionistic film takes us to Nigeria, Japan, Mexico and India, where craftsmen work clay to produce ritual vessels and everyday...

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....

A fanciful story, done in paper cut-outs, of a boy's journey through the skies on the tail of a kite. He soars high above the earth, encountering...

"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...

Described as "the jauntiest meat-is-murder movie ever made" and "irrational," "Deadpan" deals with dinner-table angst from the fifties. Laughter is...

The re-animation via rotoscope of parts of Bud Fischers SLICK SLEUTHS (1928) into a loopform.

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...

One-minute of found footage of Mutt and Jeff from 1926 is literally reconstructed via paper prints from photocopies and pen and ink drawings.

This video is a collage of images that takes the viewer down a path between their own virtue and cosmic morality. A quiet anxiety emerges as the...

Hula dancing. Animation; mixed media.

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...

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...

"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...

Raxlen's hand-drawn animation sits in with Oscar Peterson.

"I bought a children's fishing set and inside there was a red fish. Using real-time analog with digital montage, I created this video just as I would...

Made during a love-affair (short) with bridges, road-crew workmen and their day-glow coloured vests, flags and markers, Flagman's Nightmare is part...