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Guy Maddin: Fine Arts
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Brand Upon The Brain is intensely personal, but ... it's the fullest flowering of Maddin's imagination to date. The complex, massively Freudian narrative about a young "Guy Maddin" under constant surveillance by his severe mother is somehow both soul-baring and typically covert. Technically, the film is a marvel, with a complete and persuasive merging of European silent film vocabulary with the formal disruptions of the American avant-garde. The live stage presentation insists on splitting the audience's attention from screen to orchestra to foley artists and back again. It restores "silent" cinema as active, sometimes dazzling performance even as it lays bare the hard labour that goes into creating illusion. Watch Caoimhe Doyle, Goro Koyama and foley legend Andy Malcolm work flapping fabric and twisting plastic to build the sound of fire, and you understand something new about mimesis.
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The turn of the century ... found Maddin crossing artistic disciplines when he released "Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary," which featured dancers from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and was broadcast on CBC's "Opening Night." The production earned an International Emmy and a pair of Gemini Awards, and put Maddin into the mainstream.
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Guy Maddin's talk is part of the Otis Speaks program, organized through the Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design. Admission is free. For more information, call 310.665.6905, or send an e-mail to galleryinfo@otis.edu or a fax to 310.665.6908.
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Audiences at the Walker on February 14 had the chance to take in the full gamut of Maddin's style and films in a single sitting. The closing night gala included a dusk-to-dawn screening of Maddin's films, coinciding with an all-night party that will marked the start of the modern art gallery's year-long closing as it will undergo a $67-million expansion and renovation.
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