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The Dead Father

Guy Maddin

Canada1985 28min 16mm B&W

Synopsis

​The patriarch of a troubled clan dies, but the resentment and yearning of the eldest son conspire to bring the errant father back for periodic visits in an only partially living state. These brief stop-overs are profoundly disturbing in their incompleteness, and the boy finds himself driven inexorably to a final, frenzied act of self-loathing. 

Diretor

Guy Maddin

Born in 1956 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Guy Maddin studied economics at a university in Winnipeg. Before making films, he worked in a bank after college. Most of his films are made in his hometown, where he still lives. He never reads critic’s reviews on his films; he reviews his own films for The New York Times; he inserts personal chats, rather than explanatory commentary, with the producer and the writer for DVD release of his films. Maddin is just as eccentric as his films. His films have been already screened in the international film festival circuits, such as Toronto, New York, and Tokyo, and in 1995, the Telluride Film Festival awarded Guy Maddin who was barely forty at the time the Life-Time Achievement Award. Websites that pay a tribute to Guy Maddin and his films abound on the Internet. Some film critics pay eulogy to him as “a new hope in filmmaking of the new millennium.”