Begone Dull Care
Norman McLaren, 1949
In his quest to see what we hear and hear what we see, Norman Mc Laren made Begone dull Care in 1949, one of the finest examples of visual music fashioned directly from the material, the film stock, using “Direct Film” techniques: adding paint to transparent film stock, and scratching away successive layers of colour on the film. This film displays audiovisual complementarity in the most virtuoso manner possible and is one of the most incredible films in the field of visual music.