Babycinema My Winnipeg
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Wed 24 September 2008 // 11:00
Guy Maddin/ Canada/ 2007/ 80 mins / Cert 12A/ £4/£3/£2ttt
(Sun 21st-Tue 23rd 8pm, Wed 24th 11am)
Rare 16mm screening of Guy Maddin short Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity (1995) 6 mins
followed by main feature, My Winnipeg.
This is the latest film from cult director Guy Maddin (The Saddest Music in the World) who describes it as "docu-fantasia". Through the film he revisits and reinventshis boyhood in Winnipeg, casting 1940s femme fatale Ann Savage in the role of his mother. It is a beautiful film of black and white images mixing reality with soft-focus dreamscape. The reality-bending doesn't end there. Creative interpretations of local lore, reenactments of childhood traumas, and a quasi-documentary style make My Winnipeg a surreal reinvention of childhood and secret history.
(Sun 21st-Tue 23rd 8pm, Wed 24th 11am)
Rare 16mm screening of Guy Maddin short Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity (1995) 6 mins
followed by main feature, My Winnipeg.
This is the latest film from cult director Guy Maddin (The Saddest Music in the World) who describes it as "docu-fantasia". Through the film he revisits and reinventshis boyhood in Winnipeg, casting 1940s femme fatale Ann Savage in the role of his mother. It is a beautiful film of black and white images mixing reality with soft-focus dreamscape. The reality-bending doesn't end there. Creative interpretations of local lore, reenactments of childhood traumas, and a quasi-documentary style make My Winnipeg a surreal reinvention of childhood and secret history.