Norman McLaren: Restored Classics
75 minutes
The National Film Board of Canada is proud to be able to offer a special opportunity to screen some of Norman McLaren's finest films, completely re-stored. The restoration process involved an enormous amount of technical expertise, bringing back to life the freshness of the films without betraying the ori-ginals. Too much cleaning would might have erased artefacts resulting not from the passage of time, but from limitations in the techniques used in the original production process.
McLaren's films form an extraordinary body of work remarkable for its inventiveness, research and humanism. A master of experimental film, influenced by surrealism, and passionate about dance and music, McLaren was a complex artist whose filmography reflects a career both prolific and brilliant.
The festival asked a number of animation professionals about the meaning of Norman McLaren, for them and the film history.
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This program screened as part of HAFF 2006
Showing in this program
Begone Dull Care
Blinkity Blank
A playful exercise in intermittent animation and spasmodic imagery.
Hen Hop
Le Merle
Lines Horizontal
Neighbours
Opening Speech: McLaren
Pas de Deux
McLaren takes a look at the choreography of ballet. By exposing the same frames as many as ten times, he creates a multiple image of the dancers.
Stars and Stripes
