Norman McLaren Centenary Year 2015
Screening of animation shorts to mark the centenary year of the well-known Canadian animator, pioneer in a number of areas of animation and filmmaking, including drawn – on- film animation, visual music, abstract film, pixilation and graphical sound
Introduction: Ms Jessie Curell, National Film Board of Canada
Opening Speech: McLaren (6 min; 1961)
Norman McLaren tries to welcome the audience to a film festival but is hampered by a microphone that has a will of its own
Boogie-Doodle (3 min; 1941)
Experimental animated film with pianist, Albert Ammons’ “boogie” and McLaren’s “doodle”
A Chairy Tale (9 min; 1957)
A man’s relationship with a chair
Begone Dull Care (7 min; 1949)
A visual composition by painting and engraving directly on film
C’estl’aviron(3 min; 1944)
Norman McLaren creates the illusion of movement to illustrate a folk song
Neighbours(8 min; 1952)
Recipient of the Oscar Award 1952 for Best Documentary; and Silver Bear for Best Short Documentary, Berlin International Film Festival 1956
Two neighbours live side by side in harmony until a flower grows on the dividing line between their properties
Blinkity Blank (5 min; 1955)
Well-known Norman McLaren film shows bird-like creatures engaged in a strange dance of seduction
Le Merle (4 min; 1958)
Using simple cardboard cut-outs to tell the story of a bird that loses its neck, then its eye, back, wings and feet
Spheres (7 min; 1969)
Three-part experiment in geometric abstraction
Synchromy(7 min; 1971)
An experiment in the exact synchronization of sound and image
Pas de deux(13 min; 1968)
Recipient of the Bafta Award 1969 for Best Animated Film
The film acts as a sort of magic mirror to the dance, as McLaren captures and multiplies the grace in the movements of two dancers from the Grands Ballets Canadiens
Event starts on Tuesday, 17 March 2015 at 05:30 hrs
Type
Norman McLaren Centenary Year 2015
Dates
17 Mar 2015, 05:30 AM
Venue
Norman McLaren Centenary Year 2015
