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Narcissus
198321 min 54 secFilm: Experimental
Direction: Norman McLaren
Production: David Verrall (National Film Board of Canada)Derek Lamb (National Film Board of Canada)Douglas MacDonald (National Film Board of Canada)
A production of the National FIlm Board of Canada.
Norman
McLaren’s final film draws on all the talents of this master filmmaker to
accompany Fernand Nault’s choreography in telling the myth of Narcissus. A
tale about a young man’s incapacity to love others and his love of self that
eventually leads him into a trap. A profoundly artistic exploration of the
eternal search for love.
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Subject categories
- Dance > BalletDance Interpretations
- Literature and Language > Legends, Myths, and Tales
Credits
- conceptor
- Norman McLaren
- director
- Norman McLaren
- assistant director
- Donald McWilliams
- choreography
- Fernand Nault
- music
- Maurice Blackburn
- dancer
- Jean-Louis Morin
- Sylvie Kinal
- Sylvain Lafortune
- Robert Langevin
- musician
- Margot Morris
- John Newmark
- Maureen Forrester
- assistant to the director
- Lorna Brown
- cinematography
- David De Volpi
- camera operator
- Jacques Fogel
- camera assistant
- Andrew Kitzanuk
- Nash Read
- optical camera
- Jimmy Chin
- special camera design
- Eric Miller
- electrician
- Guy Rémillard
- Walter Klymkiw
- Claude Derasp
- Roger Martin
- music recording
- Louis Hone
- sound mixing
- Jean-Pierre Joutel
- artistic consultant
- Grant Munro
- Vincent Warren
- Tom Daly
- makeup
- Brigitte McCaughry
- set construction
- Jean Parisien
- location manager
- Marcel Malacket
- unit administrator
- Diane Bergeron
- producer
- David Verrall
- executive producer
- Derek Lamb
- Douglas MacDonald
Awards
- Special MentionFestival internatinal de cinéma de court métrage
- First Prize - Madame de Stael PrizeFestival international du film romantique
- Golden Sheaf Award - Category: Best Experimental FilmYorkton Film Festival
- Honorable Mention - Category: Visual Essays Itinerant - American Film and Video Festival
- Gold Star AwardDance on Camera Festival
- Honorable Mention International Film and Video Festival
- Golden Peacock for the Best Short Film of the FestivalInternational Film Festival