Yesterday we posted a doc about Bruce Haack, the Rocky Mountain House, Alberta kid who went on to become one of electronic music's true pioneers. Today, we pay a visit to the vaults of the NFB to check out a film by Arthur Lipsett, an avant-garde film maker notorious for what was considered some of the most groundbreaking sound/film collages of the time. Apocryphal stories tell of Lipsett roaming the halls of the NFB, collecting junk film from people's garbage cans for works that captured the attention of everyone from Stanley Kubrick to George Lucas.
Here's 21-87, a film that inspired Lucas's student film, THX 1138, and provided the seed for his conceptualizaton of "The Force" in Star Wars. Watch it.