Pas de deux
(Duo)

Canada (1968): Short/Dance

Producer-director Norman McLaren (unnamed with the Oscar^® nomination) takes a look at the choreography of ballet, with cinema effects that are all that you would expect from this master of improvisation in music and illustration. By exposing the same frames as many as ten times, the artist creates a multiple image of the ballerina and her partner (Margaret Mercier and Vincent Warren). A bare, black stage and back-lit figures, plus the remote, airy music of panpipes, produce a quiet and detachment. (NFB - Canada)

 View an excerpt from this film on the NFB - Canada web site.

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