Guy Maddin x 5 – Shipwreck in silent cinema

1 July, 2020

Inspired by German Expressionism in film and Eisenstein's methods of montage, Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin builds intricate irreverent stories, formal experiments (like The Green Fog, where he reconstructs, in the found footage style, the Vertigo plot by editing shots from popular fiction movies, B films and series) and personal obsessions.

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Journalist and film critic, with a master's degree in film critics. Collaborates with Scena9, Acoperișul de Sticlă, FILM and FILM Menu magazines. For Films in Frame, she brings the monthly top of films and writes the monthly editorial Panorama, published on a Thursday. In her spare time, she retires in the woods where she pictures other possible lives and flying foxes.