26.06.2015 | 06.09.2015
A RETROSPECTIVE | NORMAN MCLAREN

Opening reception: Friday, June 26 at 5 PM

To commemorate the 101st birthday of the late Scottish-born Canadian animator and film director Norman McLaren, SAAG Cinema is screening a retrospective of his work from the National Film Board of Canada in our discovery room.  A master and innovator of film and music, his body of work captures the spontaneity and movement of life.  Norman McLaren's innovative spirit allowed him to make exciting headway in animation and filmmaking techniques such as drawn on film animation, visual music, graphical sound, pixilation, and abstract film.  This pioneer's synesthetic work would win him an Oscar and Palme d'Or.  Don't miss out on this collection of seminal works by a Canadian film legend:

Keep Your Mouth Shut | 1944, 2 min 20 s

Pen Point Percussion | 1951, 6 min 0 s

Le Merle | 1958, 4 min 39 s

C’est L’aviron | 1944, 4 min 0 s

A Chairy Tale | 1957, 9 min 54 s

Neighbours | 1952, 8 min 6 s

Five for Four | 1942, 2 min 54 s

Hen Hop | 1942, 3 min 40 s

Mosaic | 1965, 5 min 41 s

Dots | 1940, 3 min 0 s

Spook Sport \ 1939, 8 min 0 s

Begone Dull Care | 1949, 7 min 52 s

Spheres | 1969, 7 min 21 s

Narcissus | 1983, 21 min 47 s

Ballet Adagio | 1972, 9 min 50 s

Pas De Deux | 1968, 13 min 22 s

Assistance from TIFF Film Circuit and The National Film Board of Canada.