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Highly influential Canadian experimental and documentary Filmmaker Colin Low died Yesterday in Montreal at age 89.
Who’s Colin Low? Well…
Star Wars influence : He produced Arthur Lipsett’s experimental film 21-87, a favorite of George Lucas as a student who found the inspiration about the force in that short. In A New Hope the cell block where they keep Leia is 21-87. In the Force Awakens the lost stormtrooper code is 21-87…
Kubrick influence: Stanley loved his NFB film Universe, a major influence on 2001, even borrowing his narrator Douglas Rain to Dub the voice of Hal-9000.
He was a developer of the IMAX system
And on and on.
Try and beat that…
https://www.nfb.ca/explore-all-directors/colin-low/
