FILM
Guy Maddin |
Written 30 January |
Saturday 24 October, 17:30Centre Pompidou, 75004 [map]Guy Maddin
Skilled filmmaker,
Guy Maddin has been reinventing cinema history for the past twenty years. His work, informed by the expressionist movements, and formed from the art of dance, collage and kitsch has influenced many. Often recreating the look and style of silent or early sound era films, Maddin often returns to the essence of cinematograhic art and mythical accounts whilst developing fundamentally modern work. As part of the Festival d’Automne the Centre Pompidou presents the first retrospective devoted to Maddin who will also be present for some of the showings.
Several films showing today:
Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
Canada / 1997 / 92' / col. /
starring
Shelley Duvall,
Alice Krige,
Pascale Bussières
After years of imprisonment, ex-political prisoner Peter Glahn, returns to his home town. On board the boat which takes him to the mythical Mandragore he meets the seductive Juliana Kossel, who he falls in love with. The latter mysteriously disappears but not before stealing his heart.
Odin's Shield Maiden
Canada / 2007 / 5' / silent/ black and white
starring Ekaterina Chtchelkanova, Natalia Fioroni,
Darcy Fehr
A 5 minute experimental series of black-and-white shots of several women mourning the drowning of a guy named Mundi
Cowards Bend the Knee or The Blue Hands
Canada / 2003 / 65' / black and white
starring Victor Cowie, Melissa Dionisio,
Darcy Fehr
Guy Maddin, one of the best hockey players in Winnipeg, falls in love with Meta, a femme fatale whose main priority is to revenge her mother for killing her father. This fantastical autobiography of Guy Maddin, had initially been created as an installation where the viewer must literally kneel down to watch the ten sequences through peep holes.
"Ice hockey is the sport which is most like literature and life itself. My father ran the Canadian hockey team, I have grown up in the Winnipeg ice rink where I have been alongside some great players from the east. I was the stick boy, the boy who does everything- cutting up oranges for the players, washing them in the shower if they have been injured… I also had to look after the children of the players’ wives when they went to do the shopping. It was really a strange childhood, with a very feminine part: the beauty salon that my mum and aunt had in our own home" Guy Maddin for Liberation.
Love-Chaunt Workbooks
Canada / 1997-2005 / 24' / silent
Four short-film blueprints from a lost Maddin feature.
| What: | Guy Maddin |
| When: | Saturday 24 October, 17:30 |
| Where: | Centre Pompidou, Place Georges Pompidou 75004 [map] |
| Transport: | Rambuteau, Hôtel de Ville, Châtelet-Les Halles |
| Cost: | 4 - 6EUR |
| Phone: | 01 44 78 12 33 |
| Web: | www.centrepompidou.fr |
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