Pas de deux (film)

Pas de deux
Directed byNorman McLaren
Starring
CinematographyJacques Fogel
Distributed byNational Film Board of Canada (NFB)
Release date
  • 1968 (1968)
Running time
13 minutes
CountryCanada
Budget$15,000[1]

Pas de deux (released as Duo in the United States) is a 1968 short dance film by Norman McLaren, produced by the National Film Board of Canada.[2]

Production

Pas de deux is choreographed to Romanian pan pipe music by Ludmilla Chiriaeff.[3] Ballerina Margaret Mercier dances by herself (or rather, with images of herself), before being joined by Vincent Warren to perform the pas de deux of the title.[4]

It was filmed in a studio where the walls and floor were painted black. Lighting was from the sides, so only the dancers' silhouettes appear, and their images are repeatedly multiplied.[citation needed]

The film was photographed on high contrast stock, with optical, step-and-repeat printing, for a sensuous and almost stroboscopic appearance.[citation needed]

Awards

References

  1. ^ Evans 1991, p. 157.
  2. ^ "Pas de deux". onf-nfb.gc.ca. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  3. ^ Melnyk, George (2004). One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema. University of Toronto Press. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-8020-8444-6.
  4. ^ a b Alain, Dubeau (2001). Guide to the Cinema(s) of Canada. Greenwood Press. p. 168. ISBN 978-0-313-29931-5.
  5. ^ "DUO". Academy Awards Database. Retrieved 19 January 2015.

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