Norman McLaren Movies

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...

Stop-motion, pixillation and other trick photography methods are used to depict situations on a farm.

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...

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

Advertising cartoon showing advantages of using gas supply and gas cookers.

The second thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

Done during war years. Silent film.

This animated short by Norman McLaren serves as a wartime savings campaign. Symbolic figures, drawn directly on 35mm film stock, move and dance...

1960s. A test using circles. Silent film.

The third thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

An experiment in pure design by film artists Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart. Lines, ruled directly on film, move with precision and grace against...

An hand drawn animation merged from two originally separate films. (The films were originally drawn in 1940)

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

A compilation of seven shorts made for the National Film Board of Canada. Features the NFBC shorts, "Nahanni," "Le Merle," "A Chairy Tale," "The Cars...

A compilation of various tests, techniques and experiments compiled from the 1940s - 1950s. Silent film.