A Little Phantasy on a 19th-Century Painting Movie Review 1946

Filmmaker Norman McLaren animates Arnold Boecklin's painting "Isle of the Dead" in this program. Eerie shapes flicker to life, hover briefly over the void from which they came, and sink slowly into imperturbable mystery.

Distribution

International Film Bureau, Inc., 332 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60604-4382, Phone: (312)427-4545, Fax: (312)427-4550

Available on VHS
Running time 4 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Film--Avant-Garde

Producer

National Film Board of Canada