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In Flanders Fields

In this short black and white pencil animation, director and animator G. Scott MacLeod scored and animated WWI Canadian field surgeon John McCrae's poem In Flanders Fields. He has referenced notable Canadian war art to create a work about the atrocities of war for peace.

  • G Scott Scott MacLeod
    Director
    After the war with Hannelore, The Water of Life series, First Contact
  • John McCrae
    Writer
  • George Scott MacLeod
    Producer
    After the war with Hannelore, The Water of Life Series, First Contact
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Music Video, Short
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes 41 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    November 11, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    800 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    DSLR
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • NA
Distribution Information
  • NA
Director Biography - G Scott Scott MacLeod

G. Scott MacLeod was born in Canada and is of Norse, Scottish, Irish and English lineage. Scott is a multimedia artists and filmmaker, he received a D.E.C. in Fine Arts at John Abbott College, a BFA and MA from Concordia University. He attended The Banff Centre on the Tevie and Arliss Miller scholarship, studied master works at The Uffizi Gallery in Florence on the Elizabeth T. Greenshields Scholarship. He is a fellow at The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico and a recipient of the William Blair Bruce European Travel Fine Arts Scholarship from the Canadian Scandinavian Foundation and an affiliate at the COHDS at Concordia University. His work has been collected by corporations and museums. He teaches privately, consults and lectures on better business and creative art practices. His company MacLeod 9 Productions has collaborated on nine film projects with the National Film Board of Canada as producer, director and animator. His company has produced documentaries, animations, eBooks, graphic novels and web content as teaching tools for schools, libraries, Parks Canada, museums and the public. His first feature film The Water of Life was on Amazon Prime in 2017. His work can be seen at www.macleod9.com In June 2017, July 2018 and August 2022, he attended the SIM Residency in Reykjavik Iceland to complete his current film and graphic novel projects are on the Hiberno-Norse settlement of Iceland and Greenland.

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Director Statement

“I have tried to define myself in my work through my personal “myth” or what Joseph Campbell refers to as “following one’s bliss” (Campbell, 1990 p. 211). This is a metaphor for pursuing one’s life path through the labyrinth, which for me has been a journey via my learning, art and teaching practices. This journey has given me courage to live, it has made me humble, it has fed and sheltered me, given me a voice and enabled me to do the same for other, through teaching, outreach and fund-raisers. As a result of this work, I have better understood humanity’s place on this planet and have tried to be a positive influence for political and social change.”