Begone Dull Care

This is probably the only purely abstract film I've ever enjoyed. In the process of watching this short, you almost forget how it was made (painting and scratching directly on the film strips). The animation and music sync up perfectly, but it's fun to mute it and put on your own music to see how your perspective on the synchronization changes. This interesting, avant-garde and unusual short fills me with Canadian pride.

Although I'd say I prefer Poulette by a fraction, there's no denying the artistry here. A perfect marriage of music and image, where the schizophrenic use of animation techniques mirrors the improv nature of the Oscar Peterson Trio jazz score. The melancholy middle section leaves you completely unprepared for the stunning abstract frenzy that follows.

A synesthetic marvel, and maybe one of the most purely timeless films I've seen. The drawn on film technique and the abstract presentation completely free the images from any particular era.

Abstract art drawn directly onto film speeds frenziedly along to a major-key jazz tune by the Oscar Peterson Trio. The world needs more such unadulterated works of pure video art, that are also this exciting.

Exciting animation technique with brilliant and varied use of bright colors, shapes and textures, synched to an emotive jazz piano score. Definitely worth 8 minutes of your time.

This had something, and only four years after the end of the Second World War it seems to express the hope of entering and inventing a new, more cheerful world, a feeling that by 1952 and NEIGHBOURS seems already to have slipped away.

I'm not hugely into experimental film but this one was fantastic. The jazzy tune is highly enjoyable, even to someone like myself who isn't a jazz enthusiast, and the images on screen are wonderfully expressionist and really fit the music well. I suppose if this was a longer film I would eventually get tired but as it stands it's short, sweet colourful fun.

Um, not even arthouse! Just pointless

Good work of abstract animation, but no big deal for me.

was into it until he called me a slut at the end

Exciting short. The music is great enough to keep your attention, and the animation is fantastically rhythmic and imaginitive.

It was great, I loved everything about it.

Really cool marriage of music and abstract animation.

I'm generally not into this kind of stuff, but the music is phenomenal and the abstract nature of the short never feels pretentious (gasp!).

A wonderful combination of music and paintings, "Begone Dull Care" is an upbeat and constantly interesting as well as imaginative and creative film.

Beautiful abstract images leave you with something to think about. How does it fit in with the wonderful score? That's part of the beauty of it. If you didn't know how this was done, especially in this day and age, you may not appreciate it as it should be because it is experimental and artist intent is important here. But even so, as a couple other people said, a great marriage of music and image. Powerful and avant-garde.

PV

Thank God it's over! A handy short for self-hypnosis.

Really neat.

Abstract animation gets down and gets funky

Not McLaren's best, but a great summation of what his work is about.

video kliplerin atasi. degerlendirmek dogru olmaz. oyuncu yok. karakter yok. cizgi ve renklereden olusan animasyon.

some 50-years-earlier media-player visualisations, ahead of its own time, but now only history

Beautiful, lively, exhilarating combination of music and image.

Whatever the message was, at least the form was hypnotic and the visuals and sound were strongly congruent.

extremely impressive rhythmic artistry. these guys clearly understand music.

Great music and animation considering when it was made.

Nice

The two of them collaborated on this really magnificent short where they painted directly on the film to create a visual accompaniment to three pieces by the Oscar Peterson Trio. The visuals really do feel like an expression of the music and sync up to it astonishingly well. It's a beautiful piece of work.