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Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Baloon Mounts Towards Infinity |
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dir. Guy Maddin
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Canada, UK 1995
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5’ |
subtitles: Polish and English |
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retrospective: Guy Maddin
A Trip to the Orphanage, Archangel, Berlin, Brand Upon the Brain!, Careful, Collage Party, Cowards Bend the Knee, Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary, Footsteps, Glorious, Hospital Fragments, It's a Wonderful Life, It’s My Mother’s Birthday Today, My Dad Is 100 Years Old, My Winnipeg, Nude Caboose, Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Baloon Mounts Towards Infinity, Odin's Shield Maiden, Send Me to the ‘Lectric Chair, Sissy-Boy-Slap-Party, Sombra dolorosa, Spanky: To the Pier and Back, Tales from the Gimli Hospital, The Dead Father, The Heart of the World, The Saddest Music in the World, Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, WorkbooksSection index
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Cast
Jim Keller, Brandy Bayes, Caelum Vatnsdal, Evan Richards, John Teunissen, Ron Eyolfson
Film description
A surreal series of dark images full of incestuous sexual tension. The film, commissioned by BBC, was inspired by a graphic drawing by one of the most important French symbolists, Odilon Redon (1840-1916). The picture was one of a series of illustrations for the French translation of short stories by Edgar Allan Poe. Maddin was not interested in copying either Redon's drawings or Poe's stories. He made a film referring to the tarry texture of charcoal graphics, greasy like an engine. Another source of inspiration for this film was Abel Gance's The Wheel. (ar)
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