Brand Upon the Brain!
Sep 30, 2010
(Guy Maddin, USA/Canada, 2006, 35mm, 95 min)
Back in 2004 Guy Maddin came to town for a Northwest Film Forum retrospective. As part of his stay we hooked him up with the non-profit film studio The Film Company, who were renting space from us and coordinating productions through our WigglyWorld Studios. When we asked him to produce a short film, he used the opportunity to change the way films are experienced! The semiautobiographical Brand upon the Brain! mines the rich territories of Maddin’s youth and spins them into a delirious fantasy of familial discontent. It originally premiered in our Local Sightings Film Festival in 2007 complete with live orchestra, foley artists and narration by Karen Black and Maddin himself. Here we screen the 35mm print which we toured around the country to overwhelming critical success.
Screens with
It Was A Crushing Defeat
(Matt McCormick, USA, 2007, 35mm, 4 min)
In hi-8 night vision, this film features beautiful images of a late night at the Portland Police horse paddock beside Centennial Mills.