Direction: Norman McLaren

Direction Norman McLaren

Cast Grant Munro · Jean Paul Ladouceur

Plot A surreal story of two neighbours' destructive feud over a flower.

Direction Norman McLaren

Cast Margaret Mercier · Vincent Warren

Plot Two ballet dancers perform a dance enhanced with surreal multi and after-image effect visuals.

Direction Norman McLaren

Cast Jean-Louis Morin · Sylvie Kinal · Sylvain Lafortune

Plot In this short film by Norman McLaren, dancers enact the Greek tragedy of Narcissus, the beautiful youth whose excessive self-love condemned him to a trapped existence. Skillfully merging film, dance...

Direction Norman McLaren · Evelyn Lambart

Plot Abstract images drawn directly onto the film are accompanied by three pieces of jazz performed by the Oscar Peterson trio.

Direction Norman McLaren · Claude Jutra

Cast Claude Jutra

Plot A young man wishes to sit down on a plain white chair in order to read. The chair resists this whole idea strenuously. Finally the young man admits defeat and...

Direction Norman McLaren

Cast David Holmes · Anna Marie Holmes

Plot Two ballet dancers perform a dance in ghostly slow motion.

Direction Norman McLaren · Evelyn Lambart

Direction Norman McLaren

Plot In this animation film, Norman McLaren imparts unusual activity to an old French-Canadian nonsense song. Simple white cut-outs on pastel backgrounds, many by Evelyn Lambart, provide lively illustrations. The folksong...

Direction Norman McLaren

Plot Norman McLaren used a technique he called the "pastel method" in this film. On an 18"X24" piece of cardboard he painted the picture using chalk and pastels, altering the image...

Direction Norman McLaren · Grant Munro

Direction Norman McLaren

Direction Norman McLaren · Mary Ellen Bute · Ted Nemeth

Plot It's midnight in a graveyard. The principal characters are spooks, ghosts, bats, bells, and, at the end, the sun. As midnight strikes, 12 spooks appear, then two ghosts. They move...

Direction Jeff Hale · Norman McLaren · Grant Munro · Gerald Potterton

Cast Grant Munro

Plot Three separate sequences related to Christmas, animated in different styles: cutout animation of children dancing in the snow to "Jingle Bells," stop-motion animation of toys come to life, and cel...

Direction Norman McLaren

Plot The surreal story of a bird and its cage with both their conflict and union.

Direction Norman McLaren

Cast Norman McLaren

Plot Norman McLaren's Opening Speech on the Occasion of the First Montreal International Film Festival.

Direction Norman McLaren

Direction Norman McLaren · Evelyn Lambart

Direction Norman McLaren · Evelyn Lambart

Cast Norman McLaren

Plot This short experimental animation tempts the eye with gradually unfolding yet increasingly complex movement, colour and sound. Reminiscent of the mid-20th-century style of “op art,” McLaren and Lambart’s film follows...

Direction Norman McLaren

Plot The film's soundtrack is an original musical composition produced with synthetic sound - through photographing unusual geometric shapes and running them through an optical sound head. The images are an...

Direction Norman McLaren

Plot An experimental film of dots animated by being drawn directly on filmstock.