Neighbour's Norman Mclaren
A story of two men, Jean-Paul Ladouceur and Grant Munro, live peacefully in adjacent cardboard houses. When a flower blooms between their houses, they fight each other to the death over the ownership of the single small flower. Originally made as an anti-war film in 1952, Neighbours is the winner of both a canadian film award and an academy award. Strangely, it was in the Documentary category even though it was supposed to be a short drama. A press release issued by AMPAS states that Neighbours is "among a group of films that not only competed, but won Academy Awards in what were clearly inappropriate categories." In 2009 Neighbours was listed the most significant documentary heritage collections in the world. McLaren created the soundtrack of the film, creating various blobs, lines, and triangles which the projector read as sound. Even though some people prefer the orignal soundtrack, some people do partially like a second version which uses a very passionate song that most people agree it improves the experience of the film. The film uses the technique known as pixilation, an animation technique using live actors as stop-motion objects. 
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