Claude Cloutier

The princess Betty won't wake up. Many measures are attempted to wake her.

A clip in the Science Please! collection, The Force of Water uses archival footage, animated illustration and amusing narration to explain the Archimedes principle, of why some things float and others sink. (nfb.ca)

A clip in the Science Please! collection, Wheel Meets Friction uses archival footage, animated illustrations and amusing narration to explain how the invention of the ball bearing reinvented the wheel. (nfb.ca)

Four strokes of genius. (nfb.ca)

A clip in the Science Please! collection, Slippery Ice! uses archival footage, animated illustrations and amusing narration to explain why we slip on ice. (nfb.ca)

With school, tennis lessons, swimming lessons, art classes, homework and piano practice, a young boy leads such a regimented life that he has no more time just to be a kid. Inspired by Article 31 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, this short animated film by Claude Cloutier pleads for children's right to rest and leisure. Directed by Claude Cloutier -1994

From the earliest forms of life on Earth to the world of today, From the Big Bang to Tuesday Morning uses absurdist humour to tell the biological story of humanity. From a mighty cosmic explosion comes the matter from which evolve the mineral, vegetable and animal worlds. There follows a series of metamorphoses illustrating the branching out of the human genealogical tree. (National Film Board of Canada)

Featuring a salesman and a consumer, this animated short is a humorous study of the patterns that define buyer-seller relationships. (nfb.ca)

'Bad Seeds' takes us to a bizarre world populated by carnivorous plants that can change shapes the way a chameleon changes colours. The film deftly connects growth with rivalry and evolution with competition, crafting an increasingly shocking duel that's peppered with allusions to the Western, the Cold War, board games, and much more.