[Frameworks] Painting directly to film

[Gene Youngblood]

It wasn’t expressionist, but McClaren’s “Begone Dull Care” (1949), set to Oscar Peterson jazz, is a classic of the visual music genre, and deservedly so. Interesting for someone who, as you point out, made mostly figure-based work.


On December 1, 2017 at 1:22:03 PM, Myron Ort (zeno at sonic.net) wrote:

Norman McLaren  to my knowledge made mostly very “figure” based  imagery (often cute). Len Lye  was more to my liking, however he still was making figurative based gestures dancing around to music. I was narrowing my question down to (extended) “abstract expressionist” film painting, rather than the more general area of camerless filmmaking overall. Man Ray also pioneered some techniques in this realm but I was referring more to “expressionist” style film painting that would later become  something Stan Brakhage explored extensively, however never without asserting that there was a correlative metaphoric quasi “narrative" involved. Later he would call it “moving visual thinking”.




On Dec 1, 2017, at 12:07 PM, Kit Basquin <kitbasquin at aol.com> wrote:

Norman McLaren, who was from Scotland but worked for the Canadian Film Board most of his life.


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Can anyone site an example of “abstract expressionist” painting onto film prior to 1968?  (Hopefully with online viewing availability).


https://vimeo.com/220986135


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