NFB Collection
The Passerby
199557 min 41 secFilm: Documentary, Experimental
Direction: Donald McWilliams
Production: Susan HuyckeBarrie McLeanDon HaigDennis Murphy
Script: Donald McWilliamsSusan Huycke
In The Passerby, poems, interviews, home movies, photographs, and footage shot around the globe meld into haunting impressions of lives lived. What can we learn from images and motion, from expression and gesture? In this meditation on the mysteries of existence, filmmaker Donald McWilliams' intriguing juxtapositions and his use of music and optical effects excite the imagination.
Subject categories
- Arts > Arts and Artists
- Psychology and Psychiatry > Life and Death
Credits
- director
- Donald McWilliams
- editing
- Donald McWilliams
- narrator
- Donald McWilliams
- producer
- Susan Huycke
- Barrie McLean
- executive producer
- Don Haig
- Dennis Murphy
- script
- Donald McWilliams
- Susan Huycke
- cinematography
- Jim Aquila
- Pierre Letarte
- Jack Hazan
- David De Volpi
- Douglas Kiefer
- Donald McWilliams
- animation camera
- Pierre Landry
- Lynda Pelley
- Raymond Dumas
- sound
- Jacques Drouin
- Marie de La Grave
- Justine Pimlott
- Diana Rushton
- re-recording
- Serge Boivin
- animation
- Caroline Leaf
- music
- Eldon Rathburn
Awards
- Award - Category: Best Cultural DocumentaryHot Docs