My Winnipeg

Guy Maddin, one of the most important experimental filmmakers in the world, has been creating films that defy all definitions for decades. Hovering between the worlds of silent cinema, camp melodrama, and subversive home movies, Maddin treats cinema as a space for play, autobiography, humor, and therapy.

 

In his 2007 film My Winnipeg, Maddin creates a bizarre chronicle– in the spirit of Schulz – of his hometown in the Canadian province of Manitoba. Fragments of memories, local legends, the ghosts of an old department store, personal demons, and intimate obsessions – as well as the all-encompassing cult of hockey – come together in a poetic narrative, embellished with the baroque phrasing of Maddin’s longtime collaborator, literary scholar and writer George Toles.

This evening at KINOMUZEUM will be combined with the launch of a new book by Kuba Mikurda, a cultural studies scholar and filmmaker (creator of, among others, Escapes to the Silver Globe), titled “Oko wykol: psychoanalityczne eseje o kinie” (published by the Łódź Film School Press). The discussion with the author will be moderated by Michał Oleszczyk from the “Artes Liberales” Department at the University of Warsaw, who, together with Kuba Mikurda, published a volume of conversations with Guy Maddin titled “Kino wykolejone” in 2009.