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Workbooks

dir. Guy Maddin / Canada 2005 / 24’

subtitles: no dialogs

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, Workbooks Section index

Cast

Kyle McCulloch, Megan McIvor, Rachel Toles, Darcy Fehr, Micheline Marchildon, Krista Morrison, Andrea Locktin, Alyssa Soke, Jonah Corne, Michel Powell, Noam Gonic, Caelum Vatnsdal, Rob Rowan, Loius Negin, David Steward Evans, Mike Bell

Film description

Fragments of the footage shot for the film Cock Crew Maddin gave up, re-edited in cooperation with John Gurdebeke (Chimney Workbook, Zookeepers Workbook and Rooster Workbook). The screenplay is based on Herman Melville's short stories - I and My Chimney and The Tartarus of the Maids. And additionally - a suspenseful short film, comprising footage from auditions for Cowards Bend the Knee or The Blue Hands entitled Fuseboy Workbook.(km)