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 ([email protected]) 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 <[email protected]> wrote:

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


-----Original Message-----
From: Myron Ort <[email protected]>
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Subject: [Frameworks] Painting directly to film

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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