Aug 18, 1983
22 min
Full-HD

Narcissus (1983)

In this short film by Norman McLaren, dancers enact the Greek tragedy of Narcissus, the beautiful youth whose excessive self-love condemned him to a trapped existence. Skilfully merging film, dance and music, the film is a compendium of the techniques McLaren acquired over a lifetime of experimentation.

Category

Music

Country

Canada

Companies

ONF | NFB

Jean-Louis Morin

Narcissus

Sylvie Kinal

Nymph

Sylvain Lafortune

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