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Focus on Guy Maddin

The Heart of the World

Guy Maddin

Canada2000 6min 35mm Color

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Commissioned for the 25th Anniversary of the Toronto International Film Festival. A state Scientist, Anna, discovers that the heart of the world is about to break. In the meantime, Osip and Nicolai battle for Anna’s preoccupied affections. What choice is she going to make?

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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.”

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