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Animation and Musique concrète 2021
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Neighbours
Norman McLaren
A neighbourhood dispute escalates … The pixilated movements of actors and scenery seem more and more absurd, heightened by the frantic sounds of the hand-drawn soundtrack.
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Neighbours

Voisins
Norman McLaren
Animation and Musique concrète 2021
Animated Film
Canada
1952
8 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

An escalating neighbourhood dispute as a pacifist parable on the Korean War. The pixilation, which Norman McLaren is said to have pioneered, makes plot and scenery look more and more absurd. The madness is heihgtened by frantic electronic sounds, which were also created by a special technique: McLaren drew optical sound signals in lines and dots by hand directly on the soundtrack.

André Eckardt

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Director
Norman McLaren
Cinematographer
Wolf Koenig
Producer
Norman McLaren
Score
Norman McLaren
Performer
Grant Munro, Jean-Paul Ladouceur