Kim Keukeleire joins us from Brussels for this week’s The Animation That Changed Me, a series in which leading filmmakers and artists discuss one work of animation that deeply influenced them.

In this extraordinary short animation, Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren painted colours, shapes, and transformations directly onto their filmstrip. The result is a vivid interpretation, in fluid ...

Junior Boys' third album Begone Dull Care, the Canadian synth duo's followup to 2006's So This Is Goodbye, is out this Spring. We're told the title's a reference to a short film by Norman McLaren, who ...

Based on McLarens Begone Dull Care 1949 Dix anagrammes autour de Norman McLaren uses an anagram machine to modify words in French and English This fun bilingual experimentation with words combines a ...

Electronica can be a debilitating enterprise over time. The genre, at its best, sprinkles diverse, intricately detailed elements among urgent beats that demand body movement; however, as their careers ...

It’s hard to love the ’80s more than Junior Boys do. From its austere beeps and dollar-store snares to its “new-romantic” title, Begone Dull Care wears its retro genre label proudly. Fortunately, the ...

To commemorate the National Film Board of Canada’s 75th anniversary, Canada Post released a set of five stamps this month that celebrate the government-run studio’s films. Animation is overtaking the ...

Junior Boys drew inspiration for the album from the animation of Norman McLaren, an artist who married the movement of abstract shapes with pulsing noise and symphonic overtures. This explains much of ...

Living on two continents often spells trouble for a band, but not for Hamilton’s Junior Boys who have created one of the most ambitious records in their young career. Flying back and forth between ...