synopsis
The ingenious synchronisation of the musical and visual components of the film creates a synaesthetic experience that, thanks to the gradual unveiling of visual-sound analogies, gives the impression of learning a new language. This classic work of avant-garde cinema was created through McLaren's long experimentation with drawing on an optical audio track.
biography
Norman McLaren (1914–1987) was an award-winning Scottish-Canadian experimental animator. He worked with many animation techniques: from scratching and drawing directly onto film stock to stop-motion animation and combining animation with live actors. In 2014, Ji.hlava IDFF presented the world premiere of Patrick Bergeron's film homage to McLaren's
Synchromy,
Synchromy Study.
film details
| director: | Norman McLaren |
| producer: | Norman McLaren |
Film at festival
| premiere type: | Czech Premiere |
| festival edition: | 2024 |
| section: | Fascinations: Computing Film |
| language: | No Dialogue |
| subtitles: | No Subtitles |
| colour: | Colour |
Info
| director: | Norman McLaren |
| original title: | Synchromy |
| country: | Canada |
| year: | 1971 |
| running time: | 8 min. |
