''Cameras Take Five'' is a Canadian animated short film, directed by

Steven Woloshen Steven Woloshen (born 1960) is a Canadian film animator and a pioneer of drawn-on-film animation. Biography Born in Montreal, Quebec, Woloshen first attended Vanier College, where he worked with Super-8 film and video, later Woloshen specializ ...

and released in 2003.John Griffin, "Rendez-vous du cinema breaks out in English: Anglo films open event for first time". '' Montreal Gazette'', February 15, 2003. The film is a

scratch film Drawn-on-film animation, also known as direct animation or animation without camera, is an animation technique where footage is produced by creating the images directly on film stock, as opposed to any other form of animation where the images or ...

comprising abstract improvisational line drawings set to the tune of the jazz standard " Take Five". The film premiered on February 20, 2003, at the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois as the preview in front of Bernar Hébert's feature film ''The Favourite Game'', the first time non-francophone films had ever been selected to open the festival. Gregory Singer of '' Animation World Network'' wrote that the film "is the popping peekaboo pizzazz of dots, a firework display, a miniature maelstrom of color. Lines extending, collapsing, tumbling, folding, curling. Greens and purples. At times, it looks like holes are burned directly into the emulsion." It was included in the 2003 Animation Show of Shows, and was later selected for inclusion on the first DVD release of the best films from the Show of Shows program. In 2006 it was included in the National Film Board of Canada's ''Volatile Materials'', a DVD set of short films exploring the relationship between film and music, alongside films by Theodore Ushev,

Anne-Marie Sirois Anne-Marie Sirois (born 1958) is a visual artist, writer and film director of Acadian descent living in New Brunswick, Canada. Career She was born in Saint-Basile and received a bachelor's degree in visual arts from the Université de Moncton. ...

David Rimmer __NOTOC__ David Rimmer (20 January 1942 – 26 January 2023) was a Canadian experimental filmmaker and university instructor. His works came to prominence in the Underground Film community in the 1970s. In 2011, he was awarded a Governor General ...

, Karl Lemieux, and Christopher Hinton. In 2017 it was included in the Toronto International Film Festival's Canada On Screen program of significant films from throughout Canadian history."MomenTO: Canada on Screen"
. ''BlogTO'', August 11, 2017.

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