Canon (movie)

Canon (movie)

  • User score: 6
  • Production country: Canada
  • Producer: Norman McLaren , Grant Munro
  • Production companies: ONF | NFB
  • Genre: Animation
  • Release date: 8/6/1964
  • Run time: 10 min.

Movie description

Perhaps the only film whose content is totally based on the musical form known as canon. The first sequence is a simple demonstration of the canon "Frere Jacques" where four cubes dance and combine with one another on a checkerboard. The second sequence show four little human-like figures dancing in space. The third and most elaborate sequence shows a human going through several strange gesticulations. Through multiple printing we realize that the man, as in the previous sequences, is part of a visual canon and is making the gestures to himself. As we hear variations on the canonic theme so too do we witness visual variations: a woman and cat enters the canon. To show the musical technique of inversion, the image of the man is printed upside down.

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