Norman McLaren Movies

This wartime publicity trailer by Norman McLaren focuses on wartime inflation and the role of price control. Single-frame animation is used with pen...

A play on the theme of hearts. Two hearts cavort, change shape, shoot arrows at one another, give birth, and finally become one heart bearing the...

Mixes with still images, 1940s. A large collection of McLaren's surrealist illustrations. Silent film.

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

The Korean alphabet, illustrated with animation, spoken, and accompanied by music.

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

The fourth thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

Unfinished animated film, 1940s. Silent film.

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

The third thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

The second thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

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

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...

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

Compilation of McLaren's Blurr technique.