Helicopter Canada
Written by Donald Brittain and Derek May
Directed by Eugene Boyko
Canada, 1968
Last November, Netflix Canada and the National Film Board extended a deal they had made earlier that year, making upwards of twenty additional Nfb documentaries available for streaming. Though it’s a far cry from the 13,000+ shorts and features available on the Nfb’s own website, it’s a nice gesture, a way to make this particular iteration Netflix uniquely Canadian (and a way to get the necessary CanCon into the service to make it legal). One of the films added in November was Helicopter Canada, a mid-length documentary consisting solely of helicopter shots of the Canadian landscape. The effect is often thrilling, effortlessly creating power shot after power shot of both city and country, but much of why it doesn’t work is as much structural as it is political.
Helicopter Canada was originally commissioned...
Written by Donald Brittain and Derek May
Directed by Eugene Boyko
Canada, 1968
Last November, Netflix Canada and the National Film Board extended a deal they had made earlier that year, making upwards of twenty additional Nfb documentaries available for streaming. Though it’s a far cry from the 13,000+ shorts and features available on the Nfb’s own website, it’s a nice gesture, a way to make this particular iteration Netflix uniquely Canadian (and a way to get the necessary CanCon into the service to make it legal). One of the films added in November was Helicopter Canada, a mid-length documentary consisting solely of helicopter shots of the Canadian landscape. The effect is often thrilling, effortlessly creating power shot after power shot of both city and country, but much of why it doesn’t work is as much structural as it is political.
Helicopter Canada was originally commissioned...
- 9/12/2014
- by Derek Godin
- SoundOnSight
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