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It’s My Mother’s Birthday Today

dir. Guy Maddin / Canada 2008 / 4’

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

Dov Houle

Film description

Dov Houle, 'the Manitoba Meadowlark' whom Maddin met due to special screenings of Brand Upon the Brain! discovers a twittering boys' choir in the boiler-room. The film was shot in Guy Maddin's kitchen, living room and cellar. The title song is Arthur Tracy's hit of the 1920s. (km)