Director, Jean Palardy ; script, Jean Palardy ; executive producer, Robert Anderson ; photography, Walter A. Sutton ; sound, E.C.H. Muir, John Locke ; editing, David Mayerovitch, Gwen Barnhill ; producer, Robert Anderson.

Narrator, Bruce Ruddick ; cast, Robert Anderson, Bruce Ruddick.

Recorded 1954.

This film introduces us to the "automatistes," followers of a form of abstract art that developed in Montréal; a movement initiated by Paul-Émile Borduas. The meaning of the movement is explained by the artists themselves when narrator Bruce Ruddick drops in at their cooperative studio, visits the painter Paterson Ewen at his home and joins the crowd at L'Échouerie, the artists' rendezvous. Dr. Robert Hubbard, chief curator of the National Gallery of Canada, comments on non-objective art in general and automatism in particular.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).