Norman McLaren Programme 2 - The Innovator

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When:

Mon 10 May ’10, 6:15pm–8:00pm

Where: The Paramount Theatre, 25 Courtenay Place, Te Aro, Wellington Show map

Restrictions: All Ages

Ticket Information:

Members only. 12-month memberships available at the door: $90.00
Booking fees may apply

Website:

www.filmsociety.wel ... 533&sy=2010

Favourites:

Wellington Film Society

“Norman McLaren was an animator in the purest sense – he brought things to life. Those ‘things’ might be objects, like a chair, or colours, lines, shapes… and also, always, celluloid… In an oeuvre which encompasses experiments in stop-frame, scratched film, paper cut-outs, freehand and pixillation effects, metamorphosis is the only constant.”
- Tom Charity, Sight & Sound

Exploring and discovering new and powerful film techniques was a way of working for Norman McLaren. In completed films, tests and unfinished pieces, McLaren almost always works frame-by-frame, but sometimes paints and scratches directly on the film stock, or manipulates live-action – in-camera or in the processing laboratory. Programme includes Mail Early (1941), Fiddle-de-dee (1947), La poulette grise (1947), Rythmetic (1956), Lines Vertical (1960), Mosaic (1965).

Programme courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada. Selections and notes by Terence Dobson, who will introduce this screening and conduct a Q&A following the films.