Ryan Larkin

Ryan Larkin ( born July 31, 1943 in Montréal, † February 14, 2007 in Saint- Hyacinthe ) was a Canadian animator and animation director.

Biography

Larkin studied fine arts at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. At the age of nineteen, he was hired in the early 1960s by the National Film Board of Canada as a draftsman. The animator Norman McLaren recognized in him talent and helped him to realize even cartoons. So in 1966 and the nightmarish, one-minute short film Citérama. McLaren was so excited that he gave him a second project: Syrinx an encounter of the nymph of the same name from Greek mythology with the god Pan.

He became known in the animation scene in the film Walking (1969 ), which was nominated for an Academy Award for " Best Animated Short Film ". The film, at the Larkin worked for two years, shows people walking. The colors of the figures shown are always blurred, making the contours of new characters arise.

In 1972 the nine-minute Street Musique, the ' experienced a similarly positive reception as walking. In 1978 he finished his work at the National Film Board of Canada, because his finished film Ding Bat Rap did not arrive well with the employees of the company.

The majority of the funding of this film he had spent for his cocaine and alcohol addiction, which he indulged in the following years. Larkin lived for a time as a homeless man in Montreal. In the summer of 2000, he was finally in the selection committee of the Ottawa International Animation Festival and met the director Chris Landreth know. Landreth turned an animated short film about Larkin's life and social decline. The documentary film entitled Ryan was released in 2004 and became a multi-award -winning success; among other things, he won an Oscar.

By Landreths film Larkin got the chance again to make films. Most recently he worked on the animation Spare Change about his experiences as beggars and homeless on the streets of Montreal. In 2007 he died at the age of 63 years his suffering from lung cancer.

Filmography

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