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Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg by Darren Wershler (Paperback, 2010)

Guy Maddin is Canada's most icoclastic filmmaker. Through his reinvention of half-forgotten film genres, his remobilization of abandoned techniques from the early history of cinema, and his unique editing style, Maddin has created a critically successful body of work that looks like thing else in Canadian film. My Winnipeg (2008), which Roger Ebert called one of the ten best films of the first decade of the twenty-first century, has consolidated Maddin's international reputation. In this sixth volume of the Canadian Cinema series, Darren Wershler argues that Maddin's use of techniques and media that fall outside of the rmal repertoire of contemporary cinema require us to re-examine what we think we kw about the documentary genre and even 'film' itself. Through an exploration of My Winnipeg's major thematic concerns - memory, the cultural archive, and how people and objects circulate through the space of the city - Wershler contends that the result is a film that is psychologically and affectively true without being historically accurate.

Place of Publication
Toronto
Spine
9mm
Series Title
Canadian Cinema
Content Note
15 Photos
Author Biography
Darren Wershler is Concordia University Research Chair in Media and Contemporary Literature in Montreal and a published poet.
Date of Publication
01/09/2010
Country of Publication
Canada

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