Blinkity Blank Explained

Blinkity Blank
Director:Norman McLaren
Producer:Norman McLaren
Studio:National Film Board of Canada
Distributor:National Film Board of Canada
Language:English, French

Blinkity Blank is a 1955 animated short film created by Norman McLaren for the National Film Board of Canada. It won, among other awards, both the Short Film Palme d'Or at Cannes[1] and the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film.[2]

Production

Engraved directly onto black film leader, Blinkity Blank features a soundtrack combining improvisational jazz from composer Maurice Blackburn along with graphical sounds created by McLaren scratching onto the film's optical soundtrack.[3]

The film features lines, dots and other abstract forms, along with fruits, trees, planets and chickens—the latter featured at length in another McLaren hand-drawn film Hen Hop—which blink in and out of existence, or merge with or modulate other shapes. McLaren also left some frames blank, which he described as "sprinkling on the empty band of time".[4]

Awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Festival de Cannes: Blinkity Blank . 2011-03-14. festival-cannes.com.
  2. Web site: Blinkity Blank. Collection. National Film Board of Canada. 7 October 2010.
  3. Book: Rist, Peter. Guide to the Cinema(s) of Canada. 2001. Greenwood Publishing. 0-313-29931-5. 18.
  4. Schaffer. Bill. The Riddle of the Chicken: The Work of Norman McLaren. Senses of Cinema. 2005. 35. 16 March 2011.

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