There's something rotten in Canada. A Winnipeg to be exact, between the great lakes of Manitoba. The "muddy waters". A film narrating the feats of the uncanny. That Monsieur Guy Maddin . Restless and curious eye, with irony and a great sense of humor carries us into a spectacle of the past, where Fritz Lang and Luis Buñuel playing cards with David Lynch and Tod Browning Leni Riefenstahl and prepare their coffee. The tragedy that befalls the world. Love, the competition, the sacred and the profane.
Black and White busy (or color "fake" by Sombra painful ), installation "neurotic" music (in) apt, not a cinema. All summed up as a drug, " gaddinesque . 'The uselessness of the word time and balance the look ", the word of Pier Maria Bocchi. A handful of films, short films, commercials, videos, experiments (extra) area. Noises off, crumbling relationships and are strengthened, as in a mechanical ballet. Constructivist? Maybe on the banks of a lake, waiting for a return.
A treat for story-telling that goes with surrealism and black comedy. Life in its total absurdity. From the time of The Dead Father (1986) and Tales From the Gimli Hospital (1988) to those of Archangel (1990), Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997) and Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002) are chasing the ghosts of war, the re-invention of the myths of an entire imaginary universe populated by a femme fatale and bodies constantly changing / evolving.
collaboration with Isabella Rossellini is bringing to the Canadian film the bizarre, amazing, anarchic The Saddest Music in the World (2003) el'affettuoso My Dad Is 100 Years Old (2005). Nostalgia envelops Brand upon the Brain (2006) of a painful candor, the return to childhood that makes its presence felt even in the next My Winnipeg (2007). Last in order of time, Night Mayor (2009). Presented at the Toronto Film Festival, is the story of the inventor of Serbian origin Nihad Ademi . A man opposed by the authorities because the creator, with their children of Telemodium. A device that harnesses the power of the northern lights in Winnipeg, the year 1939, broadcasts across Canada, "Every Day Life Every Day for people." A jumble of lights, sounds, images and sounds that come in the minds of citizens and are reworked, filtered, chopped up, swallowed. A television for organic produce new images. New meat. Ademi, aurora, nightmare ... Nightmare of Winnipeg!
The so-called dome 
