Norman McLaren

Overview

Known for
Acting
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Birthday
Apr 11, 1914 (111 years old)
Death date
Feb 27, 1987

Norman McLaren

Known For

Daedalus
1h 3m
Movie 2024

Daedalus

"Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." Shot in just seven consecutive days during the summer of 2023, it concludes the first volume of Bliss, a playlist of sounds and shapes. Daedalus delves into the perilous dance between striving for something and the suffocating pull of stagnancy. This chaotic structure bridges the warnings and epiphanic thoughts of 20th-century thinkers with the lives of today's dreamers.

Tanguy Landscape Test
0h 1m
Movie 2006

Tanguy Landscape Test

Featuring a voiceover. 1944 test inspired by surrealist painter Yves Tanguy, an improvised moving growing landscape in a surrealistic manner.

Painting with Light
0h 5m
Movie 2006

Painting with Light

The third thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

Evelyn Lambart
0h 6m
Movie 2006

Evelyn Lambart

The fifth thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren; this time with a focus on his collaborator Evelyn Lambart.

Birdlings
0h 4m
Movie 2006

Birdlings

This 1967 footage shows McLaren at a computer with Evelyn Lambart, Rene Pardo and two other technicians, followed by the animation test some call Birdlings. McLaren found computers still too primitive for his needs and continued to explored the optical printer in Pas De Deux, Synchromy and Narcissus. Silent film.

The Art of Motion
0h 3m
Movie 2006

The Art of Motion

The fourth thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

Blurr Test
0h 11m
Movie 2006

Blurr Test

Compilation of McLaren's Blurr technique.

McLaren and Space
0h 5m
Movie 2006

McLaren and Space

The second thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

Beginnings
0h 5m
Movie 2006

Beginnings

The first thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

War and Peace
0h 5m
Movie 2005

War and Peace

This documentary short illustrates the thematic role of war in the works of filmmaker Norman McLaren, from his traumatic experiences in the Spanish Civil War to the Korean conflict, which inspired him to make Neighbours.

Biography

Norman McLaren, CC, CQ (11 April 1914 – 27 January 1987) was a Scottish-born Canadian animator and film director known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). He was a pioneer in a number of areas of animation and filmmaking, including drawn-on-film animation, visual music, abstract film, pixilation and graphical sound. His awards included an Oscar for the Best Documentary in 1952 for Neighbours, a Silver Bear for best short documentary at the 1956 Berlin International Film Festival Rythmetic and a 1969 BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film for Pas de deux.

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