Pas de deux (short film)

Movie
Original title	pas de deux
Country of production	Canada
Publishing year	1968
length	14 minutes
Rod
Director	Norman McLaren
production	Norman McLaren
music	Maurice Blackburn ; Dobre Constantin
camera	Jacques Fogel
occupation
	Margaret Mercier : dancer; Vincent Warren : dancers;

Pas de deux is a Canadian, experimental short dance film directed by Norman McLaren from 1968.

action

In the film, a ballerina initially dances by herself. Later a dancer appears and both dance together. The film does not contain any dialogues.

production

The scenes were created in front of a black background, with the white-clad dancers being backlit. So both people appear at times only as bright outlines. With the help of an optical printer , McLaren sometimes produced up to eleven copies of individual frames. Since the dance scenes are played in slow motion, this results in multiplications and occasional superimpositions of individual movements, with the movement appearing to unfold in a floating manner. The resulting effects make the scenery appear more and more abstract as the film progresses. The pictures are accompanied by Romanian pan flute music.

Pas de deux was shown at the Chicago International Film Festival in October 1968 .

Awards

At the Phnom Penh International Film Festival won Pas de deux the award for Best Short Film and was on the Chicago International Film Festival nominated for a Silver Hugo in the same category. At the Canadian Film Awards 1968, Norman McLaren won a special award for pas de deux .

Pas de deux received a BAFTA for Best Animated Film in 1969 and won the Grand Prix at the Melbourne International Film Festival . The film was also nominated for an Oscar in the Best Short Film category in 1969.

Web links

Pas de deux in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Khalda Logan: Pas de deux - Critical Essay ( Memento of February 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Pas de deux on Canadian Film Encyclopedia.
↑ George Melnyk: One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema . University of Toronto Press, Toronto et al. 2004, p. 72.
↑ Norman McLaren on arsenal-berlin.de
^ Alain Dubeau: Pas de deux . In: Peter Harry Rist (Ed.): Guide to the Cinema (s) of Canada . Greenwood Press, Westport 2001, p. 168.
↑ BAFTA Awards: Animated Film in 1969. Retrieved January 15, 2020 .

[1] Khalda Logan: Pas de deux - Critical Essay ( Memento of February 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

[2] Pas de deux on Canadian Film Encyclopedia.

[3] George Melnyk: One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema . University of Toronto Press, Toronto et al. 2004, p. 72.

[4] Norman McLaren on arsenal-berlin.de

[5] Alain Dubeau: Pas de deux . In: Peter Harry Rist (Ed.): Guide to the Cinema (s) of Canada . Greenwood Press, Westport 2001, p. 168.

[6] BAFTA Awards: Animated Film in 1969. Retrieved January 15, 2020 .