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Canon (1964)
Directed by Norman McLaren, Grant Munro
Animation, Music · 10m
Perhaps the only film whose content is totally based on the musical form known as canon. The first sequence is a simple demonstration of the canon "Frere Jacques" where four cubes dance and combine with one another on a checkerboard. The second sequence show four little human-like figures dancing in space. The third and most elaborate sequence shows a human going through several strange gesticulations. Through multiple printing we realize that the man, as in the previous sequences, is part of a visual canon and is making the gestures to himself. As we hear variations on the canonic theme so too do we witness visual variations: a woman and cat enters the canon. To show the musical technique of inversion, the image of the man is printed upside down.
Crew
- Director
- Norman McLaren, Grant Munro
Details
- Release date
- 1964-08-06
- Runtime
- 10m
- Genres
- Animation, Music
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Canada
- Production
- ONF | NFB