Grant Munro Rediscovered
December 4, 2003
On the occasion of Grant Munro’s eightieth
birthday and the release of a new DVD, Cut-Up, The Films of
Grant Munro, The Museum
of Modern Art pays tribute to this seminal but under-recognized animator.
Working from within the historic Animation Unit of the National Film
Board of Canada from 1945 through the early 1970s, Munro directed,
produced, shot, edited, and even acted in some of the most significant
hand-drawn and pixilated animation ever made. A frequent collaborator
with Norman McLaren, Munro brought a wicked wit and sublime grace
to the art.
Organized by Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator,
Department of Film and Media. Thanks to Dennis Doros of Milestone
Film & Video,
the distributor of Munro’s DVD, for making this program possible.
. A retrospective
program featuring two unreleased, recently re-edited films—On
the Farm (1951/2003)
and Six and Seven-Eighths (1959/2003)—as well as George Dunning’s
Three Blind Mice (1945), Norman McLaren’s Neighbors (1952),
Stanley Jackson’s The Ballott-o-Matic (1953), Munro and McLaren’s
Canon (1964), Munro’s Toys (1966), Munro’s Boo
Hoo (1975),
and McLaren on McLaren (1983). Program approx. 90 min.
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