It has been online since January, tucked in the relatively hidden confines of Vimeo, but what better way to have a coming out party for Guy Maddin's most recent short, The Little White Cloud That Cried, a tribute to American filmmaker and pioneer of underground cinema Jack Smith, than with a micro-festival of the unusual short works of Canada's most off-beat and consistently humourous director.
Comedy, satire, whimsy, sex, melodrama, schlock, art, and intense inter-titles, how does one squeeze this all into 8 minutes or less? Guy Maddin is most known for his feature films, The Saddest Music In The World, Tales From The Gimli Hospital, Careful and his biography of Winnipeg slash catalogue of his own anxieties, My Winnipeg, but often packaged with the DVDs of those features, or touring film festivals (and now the internets), you will come across his sharp and eclectic short films. They are marvels...
Comedy, satire, whimsy, sex, melodrama, schlock, art, and intense inter-titles, how does one squeeze this all into 8 minutes or less? Guy Maddin is most known for his feature films, The Saddest Music In The World, Tales From The Gimli Hospital, Careful and his biography of Winnipeg slash catalogue of his own anxieties, My Winnipeg, but often packaged with the DVDs of those features, or touring film festivals (and now the internets), you will come across his sharp and eclectic short films. They are marvels...
- 3/23/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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