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Nude Caboose

dir. Guy Maddin / Canada 2006 / 2’

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

Janet Hamel, Mike Bell, Scott Hamel, Terry O'Sullivan, Jim Bell

Film description

This time Guy Maddin's camera is replaced by a mobile phone. The charming and suggestively humorous short film presents a half-naked jovial entertainer, who encourages lazy participants at a party to dance. The dance refers to playing caboose and at the caboose's end there is a naked woman. The entertainer tries to catch her and close the circle...The film is another example of Maddin's unlimited sense of humour and aesthetic interests. Nude Caboose is Maddin's most popular film available on YouTube website. (ar)