{"id":890,"date":"2008-05-08T01:40:38","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T06:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2008\/05\/08\/my-winnipeg-at-the-cca-tonight\/"},"modified":"2008-05-08T01:42:04","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T06:42:04","slug":"my-winnipeg-at-the-cca-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/05\/08\/my-winnipeg-at-the-cca-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"“My Winnipeg” at the CCA tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"

WHAT?<\/b> Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg<\/i>
\nWHEN?<\/b> Tonight at 7pm
\nWHERE?<\/b> Canadian Centre for Architecture
\n1920 Baile<\/a> (Guy metro, St. Mathieu exit)
\nHOW MUCH?<\/b> Free!<\/p>\n

For some reason I’m not surprised that a city as cold, isolated and haunted by ghosts as Winnipeg has produced a filmmaker like Guy Maddin. Like a feverish dream, Maddin’s films are bizarre in a way that is alternately off-putting and enticing. Now, Maddin has made his first “documentary,” My Winnipeg<\/i>, turning his attention to the city that has given him so much inspiration. Here’s a bit from a CBC article<\/a> on the movie from last September:<\/p>\n

Maddin superimposes his cinematic obsessions onto his civic narrative. Winnipeg is a city where historical eras are stacked up on top of each other, so it makes sense to tell its story in a montage of Soviet propaganda (Citizen Girl, a sort of a proletarian pin-up, flies around righting social wrongs), German Expressionist dance film and throbbing \u201950s melodrama. With all these layers, even old-time Winnipeggers will have a hard time sorting out Maddin\u2019s revisions. (Was the Happyland amusement park really flattened by a bison stampede?) What outsiders might think is impossible to say. \u201cMy dream is to show this film at the Berlin Film Festival and have hundreds of Germans watching it as a travelogue of Winnipeg,\u201d says Maddin.<\/p>\n

As Maddin narrates, his camera digs for hidden histories, with footage of the Masonic messages built into the architecture of the provincial legislative buildings; or still photos of the ectoplasmic seances that gripped the city in the 1920s. He gives erotic dimensions to the 1919 General Strike (in silhouetted animation re-enactments, the chaste girls at St. Mary\u2019s Academy eye those work-hardened Bolshevists). He even makes explicit political points: In a rare comment on the contemporary scene, Maddin mourns the loss of the Eaton\u2019s building and curses what he perceives as the bland, blind mediocrity of Winnipeg city leaders.<\/p>\n

The film mines the poetic in the mundane, whether it\u2019s the city\u2019s mysterious labyrinth of back lanes or the orange Jell-O at the The Bay\u2019s Paddlewheel restaurant. Always, Maddin envisions the city as snowy, drifting, somnolent, stupefied by nostalgia. \u201cWinnipeg has 10 times the sleepwalking rate of any other city in the world,\u201d the narrator claims authoritatively, a statement clearly more metaphorical than statistical. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My Winnipeg<\/i> will screen this evening at the CCA, for free, at 7pm. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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