Colin Low

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Colin Archibald Low (born July 24, 1926 in Cardston , Alberta , † February 24, 2016 in Montreal , Québec ) was a Canadian film director , producer and animator .

Life

Colin Low grew up on a ranch in western Canada and studied fine arts at the Banff School of Fine Arts and the Calgary Institute of Technology. He joined the National Film Board of Canada in 1945 through a summer school program led by Norman McLaren at the time . At the NFB he was initially responsible as a graphic artist for the drawing of film titles. He went to Sweden to study for a short time in 1948, but returned to Canada in 1949. Low became a film director and in 1950 head of the animation department of Unit B of the NFB, which in turn was headed by Tom Daly . Unit B was considered "a world-renowned source of innovative films that have now become classics of documentary films". Unit B's international successes also included Low's own animated film The Romance of Transportation in Canada , which received an Oscar nomination and won a Palme d' Or. In 1957 Low made his first documentary Corral (1954) with Wolf Koenig ; 1957 followed with City of Gold, a documentary film that, like The Romance of Transportation in Canada, won a Golden Palm and was nominated for an Oscar. From 1964 Low worked as a co-director on the experimental multi-screen film Labyrinth , which caused a sensation at Expo 67 and was later worked up in parts for television as In the Labyrinth . As a result, global interest in large screen formats increased; Labyrinth is regarded as a guide for the development of IMAX and OMNIMAX (later IMAX Dome ).

Low became executive producer of Studios C of the NFB in 1972 and directed over 100 documentaries by 1976. From 1976 he was the head of Regional Production, which included five production companies in different regions of Canada.

Low always showed a great interest in new film technologies and saw his own films as an opportunity to experiment. In 1980, Atmos was his first large-screen film, OMNIMAXX. He was also involved in the first 3D film Born of Stars (1985), was the director of the first IMAX 3D film Transitions (1986), which was shown at Expo 86 in Vancouver , and was the director of the first IMAX HD film Momentum ( 1992) director. Critics recognized him as "a tireless technology innovator and one of the true visionaries of Canadian documentary film." In 2002, Low received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Large Format Cinema Association (LFCA) for his contributions to the development of IMAX and big screen cinema. Low was named a member of the Order of Canada in 1996 for "his exceptional contributions to cinema in Canada and around the world" . In 1997 he received the Prix ​​Albert-Tessier for his cinematic life's work . He was also a member of the Royal Canadian Academy .

Low officially retired from the film business in 1997, but continued to appear as a film producer and publish articles on innovations in the field of film technology. Low's son Stephen Low is also active as a film producer.

Filmography (selection)

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Colin Low . In: Jeff Lenburg: Who's who in animated cartoons . Applause, New York 2006, p. 216.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Colin Low, Quebec documentary filmmaker, dead at 89. In: cbc.ca. CBC News, February 24, 2016, accessed February 25, 2016.
  2. ↑ See nfb approx
  3. ^ "A world-famous source of innovative films that have become documentary classics". See Tom Daly ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia . Retrieved July 28, 2019.
  4. ↑ At that time, only the producers were nominated, but not the directors, so Tom Daly was nominated for an Oscar.
  5. ↑ NFB pioneer Tom Daly dies at age 93 . In: The Canadian Press , September 21, 2011.
  6. ↑ See biography of Colin Low on onf-nfb.gc.ca ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / onf-nfb.gc.ca
  7. ↑ "an unflagging innovator of technology and one of the true visionaries of Canadian documentary." Cf. tiff.net ( Memento of the original of March 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tiff.net
  8. ↑ See tiff.net
  9. ↑ "His extraordinary contributions to cinema in Canada and around the world." Cf. onf-nfb.gc.ca ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / onf-nfb.gc.ca
  10. ↑ See festival-cannes.fr
  11. ↑ See festival-cannes.fr
personal data
SURNAME Low, Colin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Low, Colin Archibald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian film director, film producer and animator
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Cardston , Alberta , Canada
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 2016
Place of death Montreal , Quebec , Canada