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My Winnipeg And Guy Maddin Short Odilon Redon Or The Eye Like A Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity

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Sun 21 September 2008 // 20:00
Mon 22 September 2008 // 20:00
Tue 23 September 2008 // 20:00

(Sun 21st - Tue 23rd 8pm, Wed 24th 11am)
(Guy Maddin / Canada / 2007/ 80 mins / Cert 12A/ £4/3/2ttt)

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 reinvents his 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.