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SHOCK CORRIDOR CINEMA PRESENTS: THE FILMS OF GUY MADDIN: DRACULA and Beyond; Tuesday, September 16th @the fifty fifty arts collecitve
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| film programer User Info... | Shock Corridor Cinema presents: THE FILMS OF GUY MADDIN Tuesday, September 16th, 8:30 PM @ the fifty fifty arts collective 416 Craigflower Rd. $2 Perhaps one of Canada's most recently celebrated cinematic exports (yet curiously unknown to most canadians - sound familiar?), Winnipeg's Guy Maddin has been working with his unique avant-expressionist form since 1985. Largely inspired by early cinematic aesthetics (the silent film, German Expressionism) Maddin's highly stylized films transport the viewer to the birth of cinema, always maintaining a blurred boundary between the past and the present. His first feature, TALES FROM THE GIMILI HOSPITAL (1988), explores a smallpox epidemic in the village of Gimli, Manitoba through a sparkling visual field: high contrast lighting, title cards, soft iris' framing, and gorgeous black and white photography encompass a film that is both surreal and inviting. Beyond these visual strategies Gimili, maintains a contemporary investigation of jealous rage and desire reminiscent of late 20th century Queer Theory and Feminist readings. Like Gimli, the films screened tonite utilize Maddin's trademark form. His most recent work DRACULA: TALES FROM A VIRGIN'S DIARY (2002) was commissioned by the CBC, featuring the Royal Winnipeg's Ballet's interpretation of the Dracula story. Unlike most ballet featured in film, Maddin's DRACULA is highly cinematic, to the point where the dancers at times appear secondary to both the quasi-campy narrative and the film acrobatics at work. This feature has yet to be screened in Victoria and perhaps will never be seen again in these parts. Rounding out the program are two fine Maddin Shorts and the documentary, WAITING FOR TWILIGHT, filmed at the time Maddin was producing his fourth feature, TWILIGHT OF THE ICE NYMPHS (1997). This film is narrated by singer, songwriter, Tom Waits. The Program: DRACULA: PAGES FROM A VIRGIN'S DIARY (2002; 75 min.) "Quick-witted and dazzling. Imagine Murnau's NOSFERATU remade by Kenneth Anger, edited by Eisenstein on a cocaine binge, and produced for MASTERPIECE THEATER." -Nathan Lee, NEW YORK SUN ''Less a remake of the earlier cinematic versions of the vampire story than a pre-make; an attempt to imagine what the tale might have looked like before F. W. Murnau, before Bela Lugosi, before Francis Ford Coppola." - A.O. Scott, THE NEW YORK TIMES Canadian cult auteur Guy Maddin has concocted his most ravishingly stylized cinematic creation yet. Beautifully transposing the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's interpretation of Bram Stoker's classic vampire yarn from stage to screen, Maddin has forged a sumptuous, erotically charged feast of dance, drama and shadow. The black-and-white, blood-red-punctured DRACULA: PAGES FROM A VIRGIN'S DIARY is a Gothic grand guignol of the notorious Count and his bodice-ripped victims, fringed with the expressionistic strains of Gustav Mahler. preceded by: ODILON REDON [aka THE EYE, LIKE A STRANGE BALLOON, MOUNTS TOWARDS INFINITY] (1995, 5min ) A short filmic prose-poem based on the work of Belgian charcoalier Odilon Redon (1840-1916). It was organised by the British Broadcasting Corporation; directors such as Jonathan Demme, Jane Campion and Tim Burton were additionally commissioned for this project. Redon's piece, "The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity" was part of a series of illustrations he created for Charles Baudelaire s French translations of the works of Edgar Allen Poe. Bizarre, densely-layered and surreal. The resulting production won a Special Jury Citation at the Toronto Film Festival. HOSPITAL FRAGMENT (1988; 4min) A tale of sexual desire reminiscent of the twisted Gimli universe. Part horror show, part psychoanalytic; the visual field is stuffed with scar tissue, s/m role play and silent film screen divas. Simultaneously haunting and sublime. GUY MADDIN: WAITING FOR TWILIGHT (Noam Gonick; 1998; 60 min.) Narrated by Tom Waits, this one hour documentary follows Guy Maddin as he films his 1998 feature, Twilight of the Ice Nymphs and reflects upon his bizarre life and career to date, the difficulties of creating artistically challenging work in Canada, and his mission to create "tingles" in the spine of his audience. An odd cast of characters (namely Shelly Duvall) appears throughout as does Maddin's reflections on his insular Winnipeg upbringing which prompted sexual fantasies with Canada's National hockey team, fascinations with Busby Berkley films and twisted film obsessions in general. - Sat, 13 Sep 2003 5:25pm | ||
| Gman User Info... | Hey, this is tomorrow already! Gman - Mon, 15 Sep 2003 4:32pm | ||
| film programer User Info... | what do you mean/what are you on, son of gray? "tomorrow" as in tuesday came too soon? you should come to meetings, friend. - Mon, 15 Sep 2003 5:05pm | ||
| Gman User Info... | Huh? Gman - Tue, 16 Sep 2003 9:37am | ||
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