Norman McLaren Movies

An attempt to animate an abstract Charlie Chaplin-esque figure.

Featuring a voiceover. 1944 test inspired by surrealist painter Yves Tanguy, an improvised moving growing landscape in a surrealistic manner.

The fourth thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

An idea for backgrounds never used, late 1940s. Silent film.

This documentary short illustrates the thematic role of war in the works of filmmaker Norman McLaren, from his traumatic experiences in the Spanish...

Early abstract 3d stereoscopic animation by Norman McLaren collaborator Gretta Ekman.

One of a series of French-Canadian folk songs, this film was illustrated by Norman McLaren for the Chants populaires series. White gouache drawings...

Experimental film showing a day's activities at the Glasgow College of Art.

In Là-haut sur ces montagnes, Mclaren used for the first time a chain-of-mixes (chiaroscuro) on a pastel-drawn landscape. The idea for such a...

Grant Munro dances to New Orleans jazz music.

The third thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

This cinematic travelogue consists of three parts. In the first part, texts and small maps are our guides through Madrid in 1936. We see pictures of...

A film fantasy of dancing music and dancing color. Listen to the Mocking Bird played by an oldtime fiddler, brilliant patterns ripple, flow, flicker...

A compilation of seven shorts made for the National Film Board of Canada. Features the NFBC shorts, "Nahanni," "Le Merle," "A Chairy Tale," "The Cars...

Animation featuring dancing black and white shadows.

An animated film in which colored shapes dance to calliope music. The visuals were drawn by Norman McLaren directly upon the film with pen and ink....

Compilation of McLaren's Blurr technique.

In 1966, McLaren began a metamorphic film in which he explored the light and colour of Canada in this unfinished film.