Guy Maddin

Guy Maddin, named after B-movie star Guy Madison, was born in 1956 in Winnipeg, Canada. This remote and, in winter, forty below-zero degree extinct place, where he still lives and works, is often found in the settings of his films. He gives names like Gimli, Mandragora, Bad Tölz or Archangelsk to the mostly isolated and overdrawn places of Maddin's cinematic fantasy, where plagues, amnesias, war, jealousy and love madness haunt the people. In 1985, as an autodidact, he makes his first short film The Dead Father, a melancholy tale about a young man who is tormented by his father even after his father's death in apparitions. He produced it with the then very active Winnipeg Film Group, as a result of excessive film viewing and analysis together. His second work, Tales from the Gimli Hospital, became a cult film and ran for several months as a midnight screening in New York. 

In his fantastic, Guy Maddin has been compared to the young David Lynch and his quirky and handmade aesthetic is reminiscent of Ed Wood. To date, he has made five feature-length films, all of which are presented in this retrospective, and 17 short films: Transfigured artifacts that enthusiastically draw from the repository of film history. Late silent film, with its expressive facial expressions and gestures, shadow plays and few intertitles, is his preferred period, but so are early talkies, film noir and the surreal and poetic works of Luis Buñuel.

Program
Tales from the Gimli Hospital (CAN 1988, 35mm, b/w, 72 Min.)
Dracula – Pages from a Virgin's Diary (CAN 2002, 35mm, F, 75 Min.)
Careful (CAN 1992, 35mm, F, 100 Min.)
Short Films 1985-2001
Archangel (CAN 1990, DVD, b/w, 83 Min.)
Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (CAN 1997, 35mm, F, 92 Min.)
Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight (Noam Gonick, CAN 1997, Beta SP, F & b/w, 60 Min.) 

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