“I love Toronto's long autumns, warm with windy swirls of golden spores, redolent with giant, sun-roasted leaves flapping up and down the streets, and horrible winter always seeming far, far off!” LongSunStreetsWinterWarmHorribleGoldenGiantsAutumnUp And DownSeemingTorontoWindySwirlsFlapping Author:Guy Maddin
“Seances is an internet project where I intended to adapt at least a hundred and maybe three hundred lost films into ten and twenty minute long fragmentary versions. We then uploaded them to an internet archive that fragmented them even more. We treated them like shreds of lost movie spirits and allowed these spirits to interrupt each other in non-consecutive collisions that formed new movies.” LongFilmSpiritThreeLostMinutesInternetTenProjectsHundredTwentiesTreatedVersionsCollisionArchivesFragmentedConsecutive Author:Guy Maddin
“I've usually never felt comfortable shooting until things were kind of claustrophobic, but ballet dancers need a lot of space, so the sets that I designed had to be big. Normally, I'd design a kitchen that was half the size of a normal kitchen, just to make everything feel kind of womb-like, but the kitchen in a ballet would have to be like 100 feet wide and just as long.” NeedsFeelsKindLongBigsFeltSpaceHalfFeetDesignNormalComfortableSizeWideShootingKitchenDancerBalletWombBallet Dancer Author:Guy Maddin
“I've long believed that anybody who is in the act of remembering childhood is a poet, because you're thinking back on times when you were making false models of the universe. Everything is kind of irrational and poetic then.” ThinkingKindLongRememberUniverseChildhoodPoetPoeticIrrational Author:Guy Maddin
