Pas de Deux left me with kind of the same feeling Neighbours (1952) left me with. Not only a sentiment of excitement for knowing I'll never have the opportunity to watch something else quite like this, but also a feeling of constant wonder for what was going to happen next. Because, and that's a commentary I could make for almost every other McLaren animated shorts, it gets better every single minutes.
He uses this idea of frame persistence to make…
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Pas de Deux 1968
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Blinkity Blank 1955
Much like with his earlier work on Begone Dull Work (1949), Norman McLaren uses jazz music as both an inspiration and a canva onto which he projects his wild animated ideas about shapes and strokes floating around. And yet, there's something much more figurative than what was presented in Begone Dull Work. I won't pretend like I understood much of what was presented in Blinkity Blank, but I think I could at least recognise some of the shapes, like the…
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There Lived Kozyavin 1966
"He feels well, and ready to perform any tasks at all. That is the problem"
A fun short ! Also very interesting : a smart satyr of orders and the lack of self thinking in a world of alienating jobs. This man that wonders through the world searching the mysterious Sidorov, pays strangely no attention to the mysterious and wonderful universe that he crosses.
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Un Chien Andalou 1929
Un Chien Andalou isn't exactly what I would call surprising. Sure, for 1929, this feels like a revolution (in almost every aspect), but coming from surrealist masters Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel, it's pretty much what I expected to see.
Our minds are made of dreams, and dreams of symbols. Understanding these symbols and recognizing them might be the most important tool to help us dive into our unconscious mind and perhaps understand a little about why we do the…
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