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Guy Maddin
Canadian director and screenwriter, has made 25 short and feature-length films over the past twenty years. His works are stylised as films at the turn of the 1920s and 1930s. He is fascinated with silent cinema and part-talkies, his art is inspired by the aesthetics of German expressionism, surrealism, Soviet propaganda films, and the first Technicolor films.
Maddin's films are mostly shot "indoors", artificial decorations on black and white 16-mm tape (distinctly grainy, with flaws and impurities). Each film is a specific catalogue of obsessions both in aesthetics and plots (love triangles, pathological jealousy, sexual transgressions, amnesia and amputations).
Maddin was born in 1956 in Winnipeg, where he grew up with his three siblings (sister Janet and brothers Ross and Cameron) at 800 Ellis Avenue, in an upstairs room above a beauty parlour managed by Guy's mother Herdis Maddin and her sister Lil. Guy Maddin studied economy, painted houses, worked at a bank and at a photo archive. And yet his passion was watching films with his friends and all-night discussion
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The new Guy Maddin film Rumors recently premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, and when I heard it features Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander, the eminently British Charles Dance as the U.S. President, and some sort of giant brain in a dark forest…well, I began to swoon like a character in a Guy Maddin movie. Instantly, my passion for the work of this mad, obsessive, and visually distinctive Canadian auteur was reignited. If you haven’t heard of Guy Maddin, you can take this as a sort of guide to his filmography, which stretches back to the late 1980’s. Maddin ranks up there with the great Canadian guard of directors whose work carries a signature style, from David Cronenberg to Atom Egoyan. Yet, a Guy Maddin film is, perhaps, even more instantly recognizable. A mix of surrealist diary, silent era techniques, romantic delirium, expressionist horror, camp comedy, and avant-garde kink, Maddin has always been a self-proclaimed “primitive” filmmaker with deep psychological roots in his hometown, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Maddin’s work is inseparable from his Canadian-ness, from the psycho-s
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Guy Maddin
Guy Maddin (ur. 23 lutego1956 w Winnipeg), kanadyjskireżyser, scenarzysta i operator filmowy.
Ukończył ekonomię na University of Winnipeg. Pracował m.in. w banku, zanim w połowie lat 80. rozpoczął filmową karierę. Pierwszy, krótkometrażowy film zrealizował w 1986 (The Dead Father), dwa lata później debiutował dużym metrażu obrazem Tales from the Gimli Hospital. od tego czasu nakręcił blisko 30 filmów, licząc łącznie krótkie i dłuższe formy. Styl Maddina ciężko jednoznacznie określić, potrafi np. mieszać wątki fabularne z dokumentalnymi. Jest zafascynowany niemym kinem oraz filmami początku ery dźwiękowej, francuską awangardą i niemieckim ekspresjonizmem. Zdarza mu się wykorzystywać techniki filmów propagandowych, jego dzieła są okraszone absurdalnym humorem.
W 2009 ukazała się książka Kuby Mikurdy i Michała Oleszczyka pt. Kino wykolejone. Rozmowy z Guyem Madddinem (Korporacja Ha!art, Kraków 2009, ISBN 978-83-61407-33-1).
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