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K05 - 20 - 12 - 3 - 07
Keywords
Adult • Alcohol • Alcoholic • Animator • Artist • Artistic • Ashtray • Beer • Café-bar • Cigarette • Copacabana • Daylight • Glasses • Inscrutable (face) • Interior view • Larkin Ryan • Man – 60 years and older • Man (all ages) • Montréal (all) • Portrait • Reflection (thought) • Reflection (thought) • Sadness • Seated • Smoke a cigarette • Vertical • White people
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Ryan at the Copacabana Bar.
Ryan Larkin (Montreal 1943 - Sainte-Hyacinthe 2007) created 3 animated short films, Syrinx (1965), Walking (1968), and Street Musique (1972) for the National Film Board of Canada, one of which (Walking) earned him an Academy Award ® nomination. His films were lyrical, exuberant, playful, an explosion of colour, form, and music. However, he struggled with alcohol and cocaine and retreated from the film industry. In his later years, he could often be seen on the streets of downtown Montreal or at the Copacabana Bar, which came to represent a home base where his friends and other artists knew to find him. Although the spotlight was on him again when Ryan, by Chris Landreth, won the 2004 Academy Award ® for Animated Short Film, Ryan remained true to himself—fleeing social convention and resilient despite his fragility. He died in 2007 of metastatic lung cancer.
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