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MOVING PICTURES
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Canada
2000 / 35 mm / Color / 47 min.
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Over his long career, Colin Low has been haunted by the connection between art and war and the role artists have played in portraying war. For Moving Pictures Low developed techniques to show the intricate details of microscopic etchings, many of them the work of the 17th century French artist Jacques Callot. Callot created remarkably detailed copper-plate etchings chronicling the horrors of war that he witnessed. He was the first artist to accurately portray scenes of war rather than simply produce propaganda celebrating the exploits of his patron. Moving Pictures traces the technological advances that have, since Callot's day, at once revolutionized art and developed ever-more destructive weapons of war.
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Script: Colin Low, Boyce Richardson.
Phot.: Ernest McNabb.
Ed.: Gerald Vansier.
Mus.: Chris Crilly.
Prod.: Mark Zannis, Office national du film du Canada, 3155 C�te-de-Liesse, Saint-Laurent, Qu�bec H4N 2N4 (Canada), t�l.: (514) 283-9805 / 06, fax: (514) 496-1895, e-mail: [email protected].
Sales: Office national du film du Canada, 3155 C�te-de-Liesse, Saint-Laurent, Qu�bec H4N 2N4 (Canada), t�l.: (514) 283-9439, fax: (514) 496-1895, e-mail: [email protected].
Canadian Distributor: Office national du film du Canada.
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Colin Low
Born in Cardston, Alberta in 1926, Colin Low has had one of the longest, most varied and most distinguished careers of any filmmaker in Canada. He joined the National Film Board of Canada in 1945, working with Norman McLaren in the nascent animation studio which he came to head five years later. He later turned to documentaries but animation has always held a special fascination for him, and between the two his films have earned nine Oscar nominations over the years. These include The Romance of Transportation in Canada (1953), City of Gold (1956) and Universe (1960), which led to Low's involvement in Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. |
