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Performing Arts Individual Director

My Winnipeg

by (author) Guy Maddin

Publisher
Coach House Books
Initial publish date
May 2009
Category
Individual Director, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781552452110
    Publish Date
    May 2009
    List Price
    $27.95

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Description

A herd of horses frozen in a river. A bargain bridge. Séances. Golden Boy pageants. A demolished hockey arena. St. Mary's Academy for Girls. Spanky the Guide Dog through Time. An epidemic of sleepwalking.

This is the Winnipeg of Guy Maddin, the world's foremost cinéaste planant, and it's not the Winnipeg you'll find in tourist brochures. When the iconoclastic auteur of The Saddest Music in the World decided to tackle the subject of his hometown, it could only have become a 'docu-fantasia,' a melange of personal history, civic tragedy and mystical hypothesizing. The result is wildly delirious, deeply personal and deliciously entertaining.

Herewith, venture deeper into the mind of Maddin with the text of his narration, wantonly annotated with an avalanche of marginal digressions, stills, outtakes, family photos, emails, essays, deoculations, animations, notebook pages and collages. There's even an X-ray of Spanky the pug and an in-depth interview with Michael Ondaatje.

'If you love movies in the very sinews of your imagination, you should experience the work of Guy Maddin … he rewrites history; when that fails, he creates it.' – Roger Ebert

'[Maddin is] the most reluctantly radical and humorously tortured maverick working in the movies today.' – John Waters

About the author

Guy Maddin is the filmmaker behind Tales from the Gimli Hospital,Archangel, Careful, Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, The Saddest Music in the World, Dracula: Pages from a Virginâ??s Diary and Brand upon the Brain! Maddin is also a writer (From the Atelier Tovar: Selected Writings) and teacher, and occupies the position of Distinguished Filmmaker in Residence at the University of Manitoba.

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