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Feb 8, 1987 · --Norman McLaren. Although his name was not familiar to the general public, Norman McLaren, who died Jan. 27 at age 72, was one of the most innovative and influential artists in the history of ...
1990 1 h 56 min. This feature length documentary is a journey into Norman McLaren’s process of artistic creation. A cinematic genius who made films without cameras and music without instruments, McLaren produced 60 films in a stunning range of styles and techniques, collecting over 200 international awards and world recognition.
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April 11, 1914 Stirling, Scotland - d. January 27, 1987 Montreal, Quebec) Norman McLaren was a creative and technical innovator whose film career spanned more than 50 years, during which he created a body of work that has no peer in cinema. Considered an artist, animator, filmmaker, scientist, inventor, musician and technical expert, his work ...
The young Norman McLaren began his filmmaking career in 1934, and the following year, two of his films won prizes at the Scottish Amateur Film Festival, wher...
Apr 15, 2005 · An exemplary modernist, Norman McLaren was at once a practitioner and a theorist of animated art. Indeed, the most frequently cited attempt to define the specificity of animated art, regularly called upon by independent artists, academic commentators, and commercial animators such as Chuck Jones, comes from McLaren himself: “Animation is not the art of drawings-that-move, but rather the art ...
Donald McWilliams is a documentary filmmaker who uses both live action and animation in his work. He was a long-time friend of Norman McLaren and collaborated with him on his last film, Narcissus. McWilliams made the definitive documentary on McLaren: Creative Process: Norman McLaren in 1990. Norman McLaren.
Norman McLaren is the most influential animator in the history of the art of animation. Over many years of constant groundbreaking research and experimentation he has created a coherent and extraordinary body of work with a unique inventiveness. This is best exemplified by his most important film, the anti-war parable Neighbours.
