Pas de Deux (1968). News of a theatre piece celebrating the creativity of Norman McLaren, the pioneering Scots (and gay) animator and film-maker, had me searching YouTube again for his work. His sh…
[This is a guest post by one of my undergraduate students, Jonny Williams. The assignment was to produce a set of screening notes that might be of use to first time viewers of a set of films connec…
Director: Norman McLaren Year: 1971 Time: 7 mins Music: Norman McLaren Eye of Sound: What you see is what you hear. In this 1971 masterpiece, McLaren achieved what much of the audiovisual art world has been trying for decades: a perfect symbiosis of image and sound. McLaren, who had been making experiments in electronic music for a long time by painting soundtracks directly on the film, made a radical move with Synchromy: colored pattern cards representing the optical composition were placed both on the sound and picture areas of the film, so that the spectator literally visualizes music or musicalizes vision. If there ever was one single Sound of Eye, this is it. http://rapidshare.com/files/382216654/synchromy.avi
No próximo sábado, às 18h00, na Casa das Artes, vais poder conhecer mais sobre o Norman McLaren, realizador galardoado com alguns dos mais importantes prémios de cinema, e um dos nomes pioneiros do cinema de animação conhecido pela técnica de desenho na própria película. Na sessão Próxima paragem: Canadá, um ciclo de curtas metragens de animação do realizador surpreendente e muito divertido.
