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Imprint:Ottawa : National Film Board of Canada, 1954.
Description:1 streaming video file (30 min.) : digital, stereo, sound, black and white
Language:English
Series:National Film Board Screening Room
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Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13603646
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Other authors / contributors:National Film Board of Canada.
Sound characteristics:digital surround
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Director/script, Jean Palardy ; executive producer, Robert Anderson ; photography, Walter A. Sutton ; sound, E.C.H. Muir, John Locke ; editing, David Mayerovitch, Gwen Barnhill ; narrator, Bruce Ruddick ; producer/cast, Robert Anderson ; cast, Bruce Ruddick.
Narrator, Bruce Ruddick ; cast, Robert Anderson, Bruce Ruddick.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
In English.
Summary:This film introduces us to the "automatistes," followers of a form of abstract art that developed in Montréal; a movement initiated by Paul-Émile Borduas. The meaning of the movement is explained by the artists themselves when narrator Bruce Ruddick drops in at their cooperative studio, visits the painter Paterson Ewen at his home and joins the crowd at L'Échouerie, the artists' rendezvous. Dr. Robert Hubbard, chief curator of the National Gallery of Canada, comments on non-objective art in general and automatism in particular.
Target Audience:15-17.