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Footsteps

dir. Guy Maddin / Canada 2008 / 9’

subtitles: Polish and English

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

Jenna Dalla Riva, Caoimhe Doyle, Elektra Goncharova, Goro Koyama, Anna Malkin, Don White, Marilee Yorston

Film description

In Footsteps Maddin watches the Foley company artists working on the score of his film Brand Upon the Brain! (2006). This is not an ordinary documentary, it's rather a docu-fantasy, so typical of this artist. Footsteps is a record of an alchemist's session with such elements as: shoes fastened to sticks, spanks on naked buttocks, kisses on a horse's croup or a hammer and a metal plate. A mysterious mixture of sounds opens the door of the world of Brand Upon the Brain! (ar)