This week's screening My Winnipeg (2007) makes use of the language of early cinema to convey director Guy Maddin's personal memories of his hometown.
In the short film The Heart of the World (2000), Maddin commemorates cinema itself by crashing Soviet montage head-on into German expressionism and Hollywood melodrama. It's a celebration of stylistic excess. but also a strange alternate-world dream of cinema history, an act of memory which reforges the medium's past in the crucible of the present:
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