Friday, June 18, 2010

The Real Begone Dull Care



This is in response to Patrick's previous post about the Junior Boys and their album, "Begone Dull Care," which I had no idea about. Thought I'd go ahead and post the inspiration (I assume...) for that album.
Presented by the NFB of Canada, here is Norman McLaren's groundbreaking cameraless film, animated to a groovy soundtrack by Oscar Peterson. As a practitioner of found footage and cameraless filmmaking, all I can say is that this is what we dream of making, and Mr. McLaren pulled it off (I'll bet it took a few years...). Speaking of dreams, and making, I think it was Len Lye who said something along the lines of: making a film with a camera - the images come from without, but making a film without a camera - the images come from within. Pretty neat, huh?

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