Creative Process: Norman McLaren
Directed by Donald McWilliams, Claude Dionne
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Norman McLaren was a cinematic genius who made films without cameras, and music without instruments. He produced sixty films in a stunning range of styles and techniques, collecting over 200 international awards, and world recognition. In Creative Process, director Donald McWilliams demystifies the process of artistic creation. Drawing on McLaren's private film vaults, a gold mine of experimental footage and uncompleted films, McWilliams explores McLaren's methods, including his celebrated "pixillation" technique, and his daring forays into animated surrealism.Read moreLess
Norman McLaren was a cinematic genius who made films without cameras, and music without instruments. He produced sixty films in a stunning range of styles and techniques, collecting over 200 international awards, and world recognition. In Creative Process, director Donald McWilliams demystifies the process of artistic creation. Drawing on McLaren's private film vaults, a gold mine of experimental footage and uncompleted films, McWilliams explores McLaren's methods, including his celebrated "pixillation" technique, and his daring forays into animated surrealism.
The story
Norman McLaren was a cinematic genius who made films without cameras, and music without instruments. He produced sixty films in a stunning range of styles and techniques, collecting over 200 international awards, and world recognition. In Creative Process, director Donald McWilliams demystifies the process of artistic creation. Drawing on McLaren's private film vaults, a gold mine of experimental footage and uncompleted films, McWilliams explores McLaren's methods, including his celebrated "pixillation" technique, and his daring forays into animated surrealism.
Cast & crew
Norman McLarenSelf (archive footage)
John GriersonSelf
Gavin MillarSelf - Interviewer (archive footage)Explore the crew
- Director
- Donald McWilliams
- Director
- Claude Dionne
- Writer
- Susan Huycke
- Producer
- David Verrall
- Editor
- Donald McWilliams
- Director of Photography
- Jacques Avoine
- Director of Photography
- Jacques Leduc
- Director of Photography
- Pierre Letarte
- Director of Photography
- Robin L.P. Bain
- Director of Photography
- Pierre Landry
- Director of Photography
- Harry Wood
- Director of Photography
- Barry Wood
- Original Music Composer
- Eldon Rathburn
- Original Music Composer
- Maurice Blackburn
- Original Music Composer
- Norman McLaren