• Maddin’s Night Mayor

    NIGHT MAYOR by Guy Maddin

    Criterion favorite Guy Maddin continues to make his own kind of music with his latest, Night Mayor, a fourteen-minute work that the National Film Board of Canada website has been so kind as to post in its entirety. In the movie, made for the NFB’s seventieth anniversary, a mad inventor tries to harness the heavenly ethers of the aurora borealis and distill them into music and motion pictures. Naturally, this results in a film of psychotropic, collagelike beauty, one that vividly illustrates its own concept of “ordinary things combined and made miraculous.” Check it out below.

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  • By julie/NFB
    April 14, 2011
    02:41 PM

    Thanks so much for posting this! It was a thrill to do a film with Guy Maddin. For those interested, we've got some behind the scenes footage as well, which you can see here: http://bit.ly/iiammy.
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