Norman McLaren infamously posits that he probably became a filmmaker because he had been unable to be a dancer or choreographer. While one can argue that the underlying concern of his work is movement, one can also posit that McLaren’s…
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Animating Animation: Abstraction and Embodiment in McLaren’s films and dance tribute NORMAN
by Crystal Chan • April 22, 2014 • 1 Comment
Norman McLaren said “every film is a kind of dance”[1] and that “an abstract film has much greater affinity to music, ballet and dance than it has to any kind of abstract painting.”[2] He said he might have wanted to…