THE FORBIDDEN ROOM

Guy Maddin

Guy Maddin (Winnpeg, Canada, 1956) has been working for years as a director, screenwriter and video artist, bringing to the screen and into his installations his passion/obsession for the cinema of the past, whose atmosphere and clichés he tries to recreate in a playful and provocative manner. He has made over forty shorts, which have won prizes at festivals throughout the world (including My Dad Is 100 Years Old, which he presented at the Torino Film Festival in 2005), and has directed much-appreciated feature films, including Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (2002), The Saddest Music in the World (2003), Keyhole (2011) and the documentary My Winnipeg (2007).

FILMOGRAFIA

Careful (cm, 1992), The Pomps of Satan (cm, 1993), Sea Beggars (cm, 1994), Imperial Orgies (cm, 1996), Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (cm, 1997), The Hoyden (cm, 1998), The Heart of the World (cm, 2000), Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (2002), Fancy, Fancy Being Rich (tv, 2002), Cowards Bend the Knee (2003), The Saddest Music in the World (La canzone più triste del mondo, 2003), A Trip to the Orphanage (cm, 2004), Sombra Dolorosa (cm, 2004), My Dad Is 100 Years Old (cm, 2005), My Winnipeg (doc., 2007), Keyhole (2011).

Evan Johnson

Evan Johnson has collaborated since 2009 with Guy Maddin, who he met for the first time when he was working at a chemical plant in Winnipeg.

FILMOGRAFIA

Guy, Maddin, Evan Johnson:
Puberty (cm, 2014), Elms (cm, 2014), Colours (cm, 2014), Cold (cm, 2014), The Forbidden Room (2015), Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton (coregia/codirector Galen Johnson, doc., 2015).