This is a hard one since Boc means something diffrent to everyone .
For me it its growing up as a kid in the mid- late 80's . going to beavers(first level canadain boy scouts) every tuesday night sitting down in a very 60's 70's rec hall /church with gray white speckled linonlium . and orangey brown wood paneled walls leading up to arches filled with stained glass windows with depctions of christ on the cross in a kaledescope of colors and textures .then back down to a browny grey theater stage with layers of paint chipping off from the past 30 years of use . infront theres a projector screen . and a 16mm projector starts whurling up and we are sat infront of Canadain national film board documentary. perhaps about wheat farming in saskatchwan . or woodlen animal habitats like the beaver or moose maybe even about seagulls on the coast of british columbia , or pyshcidelic animations . most of which would have a very warm analog synth soundtrack that would allways be slightly out of tune on the film reels .
after we were finished we would be handed our patches that we had earned from various outdoor activities like canoeing or fishing , crafts and so on . The amazing thing is to think back that ill never experence that again . my eyes and ears were young my body small and everything was perceived diffrently in an amazing way that i can never go back to .
all they are now is sights of shapes ,colors and echos in my mind .
I thought that those sounds and those feelings were gone . But when i discoverd Boards of Canada i returned .and continue to do so every time i hear there amazingly personal music . who knows perhaps they too were trying to capture similar feelings through sound . I don't know but for me i know they have succeeded .
Movies that remind me of them are
Movies
Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang (the 1978 version)
The Peanut Butter Solution (1985)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2Cm4Cy3rxs
The Electric Grandmother (1982)
Powers of Ten
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-QA5iOWM0I
Benji movies
TV
The Edison Twins (1983)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CMAK0N3U8k
The littlest Hobo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PINxfouNQFw
CBC 70's /80's Documentarys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CgcJeVb6Hs
CBC The National (news)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE6_9Bn7ID0
NFB /Gov of Canada wildlife PSA's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=551-wX6SDw8
Sesame street animations 70's/80's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YZdn_Ns5AY
Music by philip glass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1Iehgp9s6M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBWxX3713gc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-egPia2JQo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I4kTT7EEiE
The kids of degrassi street
the short film that inspired the tv show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gT1TbKR_Bo PART 1
(ida makes a movie)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKwGKHSBd94 PART 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yikVnC_-x1Q PART 3
but the number one thing that reminds me of boc is this insanly creepy sesame street short film with .creepy tin toys , robots , Numbers and satellites .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Rhm7kp-tk