The Little Gypsy Girl

Price: €1 per session. Free access for students and faculty of the University of Navarra upon presentation of their ID card.

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For this first season, we have programmed films by the three great pioneers of abstract animation: German-American Oskar Fischinger (1900-1967); New Zealand-English Len Lye (1901-1980); and Scottish-Canadian Norman McLaren (1914-1987). Although the works of these filmmakers have been shown in film libraries, museums, and specialized theaters, they have never been presented together, demonstrating the coherence of their evolution, their decisive importance for contemporary audiovisual creation, and the bridges they build with certain trends in the visual arts of their time (abstraction, for example), which are very well represented in the Museum's Collection.
 

In addition, the Museum will use one of its black boxes to program a mini-series of films by Len Lye and Norman McLaren, lasting around 45 minutes, which will be screened on a loop in that space, continuously during the Museum's opening hours, until January 2016. This will allow visitors who were unable to attend the screenings of these authors' works at the theater on the scheduled dates to view a selection of titles in HD at any time in this space.

The cycle will conclude with a seminar in one of the museum's classrooms.

SESSIONS

1.Oskar Fischinger. Visual Music.Screenings: Tuesday, September 22, 8:00 p.m., and Tuesday, September 29, 6:30 p.m. Total duration: 31 min.

Spirals, Oskar Fischinger, 1926, 4 min

Studie Number 5, Oskar Fischinger, 1930, 3 min 15 s

Studie Number 6, Oskar Fischinger, 1930, 2 min

Studie Number 7, Oskar Fischinger, 1931, 2 min 30 s

Kreise. (Tolirag Ad Version), Oskar Fischinger, 1933-34, 2 min

Allegretto. Oskar Fischinger, 1936-43, 2 min 30s

Radio Dynamics, Oskar Fischinger, 1942, 4 min

Motion Painting Number One. Oskar Fischinger, 1947, 11 min

*35 mm copies courtesy of the Center for Visual Music, Los Angeles, and Light Cone, Paris

2.Len Lye: A Box of Colors.Screenings: Tuesday, September 22, 8:45 p.m., and Tuesday, September 29, 7:15 p.m. Total duration: 35 min.

A Color Box, Len Lye, 1935, 4 min

The Birth of a Robot, Len Lye, 1936, 7 min

Rainbow Dance, Len Lye, 1936, 5 min

Trade Tattoo, Len Lye, 1937, 4 min

Colour Flight, Len Lye, 1938, 4 min

Musical Poster Number 1, Len Lye, 1940, 3 min

Color Cry, Len Lye, 1952-3, 3 min

All Soul's Carnival, Len Lye, 1957, 9 min

*DCP copies courtesy of Ng? Taonga Sound & Vision and The Len Lye Foundation

3.Norman McLaren: Opening lecture.Screening Tuesday, September 29, 8:00 p.m. Total duration: 1 hour 10 minutes.

Norman McLaren's Opening Speech, Norman McLaren, 1961, 6 min 53 s

Cinéma, de notre temps. Norman McLaren, André S. Labarthe, 2001, 55 min

Neighbors, Norman McLaren, 1952, 8 min 6 s

4.Norman McLaren. The Art of Movement. Screening: Tuesday, October 6, 8:00 p.m. Total duration: 1 hour 10 min.

Love on the Wing, Norman McLaren, 1938, 4 min

Stars and Stripes, Norman McLaren, 1940, 2 min

Dots, Norman McLaren, 1940, 2 min 21 s

Loops, Norman McLaren, 1940, 2 min 39 s

V for Victory, Norman McLaren, 1941, 2 min 4 s

Fiddle-Dee-Dee, Norman McLaren, 1947, 3 min 23 s

Begone Dull Care, Evelyn Lambart & Norman McLaren, 1949, 7 min 52 s

Le Merle, Norman McLaren, 1958, 4 min 39 s

Short and Suite, Norman McLaren, 1959, 4 min 50 s

Mail Early for Christmas, Norman McLaren, 1959, 46 min.

New York Lightboard, Norman McLaren, 1961, 8 min 59 s

New York Lightboard Record, Norman McLaren, 1961, 7 min 38 s

Lines Vertical, Evelyn Lambart & Norman McLaren, 1960, 5 min 46 s

Lines Horizontal,Evelyn Lambart & Norman McLaren, 1962, 5 min 55 s

Mosaic, Evelyn Lambart & Norman McLaren, 1965, 5 min 41 s

5.Norman McLaren. Painting Light and Silent Music. Screening: Tuesday, October 20, 8:00 p.m. Total duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Painting Light

Around is Around, Norman McLaren, 1951, 8 min

Now is the Time, Norman McLaren, 1951, 3 min

La poulette grise, Norman McLaren, 1947, 5 min 32 s

Là-haut sur ces montagnes, Norman McLaren, 1945, 3 min 10 s

A Phantasy, Norman McLaren, 1952, 7 min 15 s

Blinkity Blank, Norman McLaren, 1955, 5 min 15 s

Serenal, Norman McLaren, 1959, 3 min 4 s

Spheres, René Jodoin & Norman McLaren, 1969, 7 min 20 s


Silent Music

Boogie-Doodle, Norman McLaren, 1940, 3 min 18 s

Alouette, Norman McLaren & René Jodoin, 1944, 2 min 22 s

Pen Point Percussion, Norman McLaren, 1951, 5 min 57 s

Rythmetic, Evelyn Lambart & Norman McLaren, 1956, 8 min 41 s

Canon, Grant Munro & Norman McLaren, 1964, 9 min 13 s

Mosaic, Evelyn Lambart & Norman McLaren, 1965, 5 min 28 s

Synchromy, Norman McLaren, 1971, 7 min 26 s

*DCP copies courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada