The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin

Synopsis

Guy Maddin, who has been nicknamed the Canadian David Lynch, is undoubtedly one of the last remaining Magi of cinema. Despite living in the middle of the digital age, this heretical director hailing from the snowy plains of Canada has spent 25 years transposing the uncommon and the uncanny onto screens over-saturated with naturalistic imagery. A lover of primitive cinema, he has cunningly summoned the light-and-shadow techniques and experimentations of the Golden Age of film to resuscitate a unique cinematographic language which plays with the spectator’s unconscious by means of visual trickery as disturbing as it is absurd. In an attitude as playful at that Maddin’s films this documentary follows the mediumistic experiments of this master of illusion, filmed during the ‘’spirit’’ shootings he presented in Europe.

Main Cast

Guy Maddin

Age : 68 | Popularity : 5%

Stephen Quay

Age : 77 | Popularity : 5%

Timothy Quay

Age : 77 | Popularity : 5%

John Waters

Age : 78 | Popularity : 9%

Kenneth Anger

Age : 97 | Popularity : 3%

Udo Kier

Age : 79 | Popularity : 42%

Isabella Rossellini

Age : 72 | Popularity : 13%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Writer	Yves Montmayeur
Directing	Director	Yves Montmayeur
Sound	Music	J.G. Thirlwell
Editing	Editor	Fabien Bouillaud
Department	Role	Name

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