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Lines Horizontal

Norman McLaren, Evelyn Lambart · Canada · Experimental / Music Video / Animation · 6 min · 32K views

Directed by Evelyn Lambart, Norman McLaren · 1962

Lines ruled directly onto film stock glide and multiply against shifting colours in response to a folk score by Pete Seeger.

A hypnotic classic of abstract animation by Canadian pioneers McLaren and Lambart.

Lines - Horizontal is accompanied by American folk musician Pete Seeger on wind and string instruments.

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