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Begone Dull Care (1949)

Genre : Animation, Music

Runtime : 8M

Director : Norman McLaren, Evelyn Lambart

Synopsis

Begone Dull Care shines with his masterful use of scratching and painting on film stock. In Begone Dull Care, McLaren adds complexity to Lye’s compositions, emphasising sound/visual synchronisation and generating depth on his mobile canvas. The film gives warmth and movement to compositions resembling a constantly morphing Jackson Pollock painting, yet never fails to remind us of its very calculated aesthetics when it suddenly adapts to the score’s slower movements and shifts from expressionistic and oversaturated explosions to minimalist vertical lines that vibrate accordingly to Oscar Peterson’s piano.

Actors

Crews

Norman McLaren
Norman McLaren
Director
Evelyn Lambart
Evelyn Lambart
Director
Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson
Music
Norman McLaren
Norman McLaren
Editor
Evelyn Lambart
Evelyn Lambart
Editor
Norman McLaren
Norman McLaren
Animation
Evelyn Lambart
Evelyn Lambart
Animation

Posters and backgrounds

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