Norman McLaren Movies

  • 1960
    Lines: Vertical

    Lines: Vertical

    Lines: Vertical

    5.31960HD

    An experiment in pure design by film artists Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart. Lines, ruled directly on film, move with precision and grace against...

    Lines: Vertical
  • 1962
    Lines: Horizontal

    Lines: Horizontal

    Lines: Horizontal

    6.11962HD

    An experiment in pure design by film artists Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart. Lines, ruled directly on film, move with precision and grace against...

    Lines: Horizontal
  • 1983
    Narcissus

    Narcissus

    Narcissus

    5.41983HD

    In this short film by Norman McLaren, dancers enact the Greek tragedy of Narcissus, the beautiful youth whose excessive self-love condemned him to a...

    Narcissus
  • 2006
    Evelyn Lambart

    Evelyn Lambart

    Evelyn Lambart

    02006HD

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

    Evelyn Lambart
  • 2006
    Birdlings

    Birdlings

    Birdlings

    02006HD

    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
  • 1973
    Pinscreen

    Pinscreen

    Pinscreen

    6.71973HD

    Pinscreen animation makes use of a screen filled with movable pins, which can be moved in or out by pressing an object onto the screen. The screen is...

    Pinscreen
  • 2024
    Daedalus

    Daedalus

    Daedalus

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    "Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." A 7 day vlog during the summer of 2023, a story of dreamers and drowners.

    Daedalus
  • 1969
    Spheres

    Spheres

    Spheres

    5.71969HD

    This animated short is a play on motion set against a background of multi-hued sky. Spheres of translucent pearl float weightlessly in the unlimited...

    Spheres
  • 1938
    Mony a Pickle

    Mony a Pickle

    Mony a Pickle

    3.51938HD

    A brisk GPO Film Unit promo for the Post Office Savings Bank: pub talk and daydream vignettes tout penny-by-penny thrift, peaking in a playful Norman...

    Mony a Pickle
  • 1963
    Christmas Cracker

    Christmas Cracker

    Christmas Cracker

    71963HD

    Three separate sequences related to Christmas, animated in different styles: cutout animation of children dancing in the snow to "Jingle Bells,"...

    Christmas Cracker
  • 1965
    Mosaic

    Mosaic

    Mosaic

    5.21965HD

    A man sets a ping-pong ball into motion and it becomes fruitful and multiplies.

    Mosaic
  • 1949
    Begone Dull Care

    Begone Dull Care

    Begone Dull Care

    6.91949HD

    In this extraordinary short animation, Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren painted colours, shapes, and transformations directly onto their filmstrip....

    Begone Dull Care
  • 1969
    Opening Speech

    Opening Speech

    Opening Speech

    6.81969HD

    Norman McLaren attempts to give the opening speech for the first Montreal International Film Festival, but his microphone won't cooperate.

    Opening Speech
  • 1958
    Blackbird

    Blackbird

    Blackbird

    6.0751958HD

    To the tune of a classic French-Canadian nonsense song, surreal blackbird made of lines loses body parts and gets them back threefold.

    Blackbird
  • 1972
    Ballet Adagio

    Ballet Adagio

    Ballet Adagio

    6.91972HD

    A slow-motion study by Norman McLaren of the pas-de-deux adagio, one of the most exacting and difficult dances of classical ballet. A ballet...

    Ballet Adagio
  • 1951
    Around Is Around

    Around Is Around

    Around Is Around

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    Early abstract 3D film by animation master Norman McLaren and collaborator Evelyn Lambart.

    Around Is Around
  • 1964
    Canon

    Canon

    Canon

    6.0671964HD

    Perhaps the only film whose content is totally based on the musical form known as canon. The first sequence is a simple demonstration of the canon...

    Canon
  • 1952
    A Phantasy

    A Phantasy

    A Phantasy

    6.11952HD

    An animated film drawn entirely in pastels. Various fantastical plant-like things "grow" from the ground, eventually launching five spheres. The...

    A Phantasy
  • 1946
    A Little Phantasy on a 19th-century Painting

    A Little Phantasy on a 19th-century Painting

    A Little Phantasy on a 19th-century Painting

    6.41946HD

    Taking "Isle of the Dead," a work by the Swiss symbolist painter Arnold Böcklin as his starting point, Norman McLaren creates a deeply...

    A Little Phantasy on a 19th-century Painting
  • 1985
    Norman McLaren and Claude Jutra Safer Sex Short

    Norman McLaren and Claude Jutra Safer Sex Short

    Norman McLaren and Claude Jutra Safer Sex Short

    01985HD

    So is this what the kids of today are into? Well, as long as it’s safe.

    Norman McLaren and Claude Jutra Safer Sex Short