La Gitanilla

Price: 1€ per session. Free access to students and professors of the University of Navarra upon presentation of their ID card.

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For this first season, we have programmed the films of the three great pioneers of abstract animation: the German-American Oskar Fischinger (1900-1967); the New Zealander-English Len Lye (1901-1980); and the Scottish-Canadian Norman McLaren (1914-1987). Although the works of these filmmakers have been shown in film libraries, museums and specialized galleries, they have never been presented together, showing the coherence of the evolution among them, their decisive importance for contemporary audiovisual creation, and the bridges they build with certain trends in the plastic arts of their time (abstraction, for example), very well represented in the Museum's Collection.
 

In addition, the Museum will take advantage of one of its black boxes to program a mini-cycle of films by Len Lye and Norman McLaren, about 45 minutes long, which will be screened in a loop in that space, continuously during the Museum's opening hours, until January 2016. In this way, those visitors who have not been able to attend the screening of these authors at the Theater on the scheduled days, will be able to attend the screening of a selection of titles in HD copies in this space at any time.

The series will be completed with a seminar in one of the Museum's classrooms.

SESSIONS

1. Oskar Fischinger. Visual music. Screenings: Tuesday, September 22, 8 pm, and Tuesday, September 29, 6:30 pm. Total duration: 31 min.

Spirals, Oskar Fischinger, 1926, 4 min

Studie Number 5, Oskar Fischinger, 1930, 3 min 15 s

Studie Number 6, Oskar Fischinger, 1930, 2 min

Studie Number 7, Oskar Fischinger, 1931, 2 min 30 s

Kreise, (Tolirag Ad Version), Oskar Fischinger, 1933-34, 2 min

Allegretto. Oskar Fischinger, 1936-43, 2 min 30 s

Radio Dynamics, Oskar Fischinger, 1942, 4 min

Motion Painting Number One. Oskar Fischinger, 1947, 11 min

*35 mm prints courtesy of the Center for Visual Music, Los Angeles, and Light Cone, Paris.

2. Len Lye: A Box of Colors. Screenings: Tuesday, September 22, 8:45 pm, and Tuesday, September 29, 7:15 pm. Total duration: 35 min.

A Colour Box, Len Lye, 1935, 4 min

The Birth of a Robot, Len Lye, 1936, 7 min

Rainbow Dance, Len Lye, 1936, 5 min

Trade Tattoo, Len Lye, 1937, 4 minutes

Colour Flight, Len Lye, 1938, 4 min

Musical Poster Number 1, Len Lye, 1940, 3 minutes

Color Cry, Len Lye, 1952-3, 3 min

All Soul's Carnival, Len Lye, 1957, 9 min

*DCP copies courtesy of Ng? Taonga Sound & Vision and The Len Lye Foundation

Norman McLaren: Inaugural lecture. Tuesday, September 29, 20h. Total duration: 1h 10 min.

Norman McLaren's Opening Speech, Norman McLaren, 1961, 6 min 53 sec.

Cinéma, de notre temps. Norman McLaren, André S. Labarthe, 2001, 55 min

Neighbours, Norman McLaren, 1952, 8 min 6 s

4. Norman McLaren. The art of movement. Show: Tuesday, October 6, 8 pm. Total duration: 1h 10 min

Love on the Wing, Norman McLaren, 1938, 4 min.

Stars and Stripes, Norman McLaren, 1940, 2 min.

Dots, Norman McLaren, 1940, 2 min 21 sec.

Loops, Norman McLaren, 1940, 2 min 39 sec.

V for Victory, Norman McLaren, 1941, 2 min 4 sec.

Fiddle-De-Dee, Norman McLaren, 1947, 3 min 23 sec.

Begone Dull Care, Evelyn Lambart & Norman McLaren, 1949, 7 min 52 sec.

Le Merle, Norman McLaren, 1958, 4 min 39 sec.

Short and Suite, Norman McLaren, 1959, 4 min 50 sec.

Mail Early for Christmas, Norman McLaren, 1959, 46 sec.

New York Lightboard, Norman McLaren, 1961, 8 min 59 sec.

New York Lightboard Record, Norman McLaren, 1961, 7 min 38 sec.

Lines Vertical, Evelyn Lambart & Norman McLaren, 1960, 5 min 46 sec.

Lines Horizontal, Evelyn Lambart & Norman McLaren, 1962, 5 min 55 sec.

Mosaic, Evelyn Lambart & Norman McLaren, 1965, 5 min 41 sec.

5. Norman McLaren. Painting the light and The quiet music. Show: Tuesday, October 20, 8 pm. Total duration: 1 h 30 min

Painting the light

Around is around, Norman McLaren, 1951, 8 min

Now is the Time, Norman McLaren, 1951, 3 min

La poulette grise, Norman McLaren, 1947, 5 min 32 s

Là-haut sur ces montagnes, Norman McLaren, 1945, 3 min 10 s

A Phantasy, Norman McLaren, 1952, 7 min 15 s

Blinkity Blank, Norman McLaren, 1955, 5 min 15 s

Serenal, Norman McLaren, 1959, 3 min 4 s

Spheres, René Jodoin & Norman McLaren, 1969, 7 min 20 s


The quiet music

Boogie-Doodle, Norman McLaren, 1940, 3 min 18 s

Alouette, Norman McLaren & René Jodoin, 1944, 2 min 22 s

Pen Point Percussion, Norman McLaren, 1951, 5 min 57 s

Rythmetic, Evelyn Lambart & Norman McLaren, 1956, 8 min 41 s

Canon, Grant Munro & Norman McLaren, 1964, 9 min 13 s

Mosaic, Evelyn Lambart & Norman McLaren, 1965, 5 min 28 s

Synchromy, Norman McLaren, 1971, 7 min 26 s

*DCP prints courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada