The Flicker Film

The Flicker Film

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1961

Runtime

0h 4m

Genres

Animation

User Score

20%

Original Title

The Flicker Film

Director

Norman McLaren

Description

‘Too esoteric, even for me,’ said McLaren about his The Flicker Film. The famous animator’s most abstract effort is marginalized to the point of being officially labelled as ‘unfinished,’ even though the explosion of high-intensity stroboscopic imagery created by rapidly alternating black and white frames, coupled to infectious syncopation on the soundtrack - looks and sounds to be not only complete enough, but utterly mind-blowing.