“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
“The Forbidden Room and Seances are related. Both of them are made up of lost film matter adapted through the medium of me and Evan, but the way they present themselves is totally different. One of them is this big Russian nesting doll of movie narratives and the other is much shorter experience on the internet.” WayMadeDifferentMatterBigsFilmLostRoomsInternetMediumsNarrativeRelatedForbiddenDollsAdapted Author:Guy Maddin
“I wandered around in a confused daze for most of the '90s unable to even remember why I wanted to be a filmmaker and somehow I found myself at the turn of the century. I used lost film as an excuse to express myself.” WantedRememberFilmUsedTurnsFoundLostCenturyExcuseFilmmakerConfusedDaze Author:Guy Maddin
“I just discovered that there were so many lost movies that were all mine to take if I wanted to take them. I was drunk on greed when I encountered this motherlode of utterly fascinating narratives that time's great river washed up on its banks for me to just scavenge, and not even rub clean, just repurpose and take credit for. It was kind of one of those weird dreams that where you keep finding free money.” IfsKindDreamWantedLostMinesFindingsRiversCleanGreedCreditDrunkNarrativeFascinatingFree MoneyWeird Dream Author:Guy Maddin
