Seances - hero image
Free
Seances (2016)

Presented by the Melbourne Cinémathèque & ACMI

Guy Maddin

Film program

This event has ended and tickets are no longer available.

When

26 Aug – 1 Sep 2020

See below for additional related events

For this week's Virtual Cinémathèque we head to Canada to revisit a selection of films by Guy Maddin. ACMI's Director of Film Programs provides an overview as well as notes on each film:

J. Hoberman cited Guy Maddin as "the most eccentric of mainstream filmmakers (or the most accessible of the avant-gardists)".

For decades, the Canadian director has created cinematic worlds governed entirely by their own logic. Inventive, wonderfully self-deprecating and irreverent, each new work offers an avalanche of humour and delirious melodrama.

His films celebrate the tactility of the medium and pay homage to cinema of a bygone era, drawing on influences as varied as Homer and ice hockey. Sleepwalkers, amnesiacs, (flawed) heroes and the psychotic inhabit Maddin's snowbound landscapes, where dreams and memory reign supreme.

– Kristy Matheson, Director of ACMI's Film Programs

Please feel free to join in the conversation using the #acmivirtualcteq hashtag this Wednesday 26 August or at another time that suits you.

Keep safe and all the best,

The Melbourne Cinémathèque committee & ACMI

How to watch

The films in this week's program are streaming across multiple platforms. Click on the films below for more information.

Curious to know more? Scroll down for additional videos and articles.

Learn more

Great Directors: Guy Maddin
Jason W, Senses of Cinema, July 2003

Guy Maddin

Program

There are no upcoming related events at this time.