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This short animation explores the “canon”, a form of musical "round" in which each singer picks up the words and tune of a song after the preceding singer. Through a...

Category Out of competition
Section "Norman McLaren" Retrospective
Tipology Short Film

This short experimental animation tempts the eye with gradually unfolding yet increasingly complex movement, colour and sound. Reminiscent of the mid-20th-century style of “op...

Category Out of competition
Section "Norman McLaren" Retrospective
Tipology Animation, Short Film

Two men, Jean-Paul Ladouceur and Grant Munro, live peacefully in adjacent cardboard houses. When a flower blooms between their houses, they fight each other to the...

Category Out of competition
Section "Norman McLaren" Retrospective
Tipology Short Film

The movie shows a ballerina (Margaret Mercier) dancing by herself (or rather, with images of herself), before being joined by a male dancer (Vincent Warren), to perform...

Category Out of competition
Section "Norman McLaren" Retrospective
Tipology Short Film

This animated short by Norman McLaren and René Jodoin is a play on motion set against a background of multi-hued sky. Spheres of translucent pearl float weightlessly in the...

Category Out of competition
Section "Norman McLaren" Retrospective
Tipology Animation, Short Film

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