Norman McLaren Movies

Russian artist Alexander Alexeieff illustrated the song "Et moi je m'enfouiyais" (En passant) using the pinscreen technique. Norman McLaren...

Images supered on a revolving barrel.

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

Documentary on savings

‘Too esoteric, even for me,’ said McLaren about his The Flicker Film. The famous animator’s most abstract effort is marginalized to...

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 color cocktail by Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart, translating into moving patterns of color and light the moods of music written for a jazz...

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....

Norman McLaren's documentary-style account of how a letter from home reaches a sailor on duty in foreign waters.

1960s. A test using circles. Silent film.

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

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

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

Unfinished animated film, 1940s. Silent film.

The fourth thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

Early abstract 3D film by animation master Norman McLaren.

This animated short co-animated by René Jodoin and Norman McLaren was produced for inclusion in the Let's All Sing Together sing-along series....

An experimental film in which both sound and visuals were created entirely by Norman McLaren drawing directly upon the film with ordinary pen and...

An experimental short film of images and music made by Norman McLaren.