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THE 1000 EYES OF DR. MADDIN
by Yves Montmayeur

France 2015 65 min English original version

Script: Yves Montmayeur, DoP: Yves Montmayeur, Editor: Fabien Bouillaud, Production: Thierry Tripod, Producer: Thierry Tripod, with: Guy Maddin, Isabella Rossellini, Udo Kier, Kenneth Anger, John Waters, Stephen and Timothy Quay

Guy Maddin, who has been nicknamed the Canadian David Lynch, is doubtlessly one of the last remaining Magus of cinema. Despite living in the middle of the digital age, this heretical director hailing from the snowy plains of Canada has spent 25 years transposing the uncommon and the uncanny onto screens over-saturated with naturalistic imagery. This documentary follows the experiments of this master of illusion.

"THE 1000 EYES OF DR. MADDIN will delight admirers of the Canadian avant-garde director and serve as an intriguing primer for the uninitiated (…) Montmayeur strikes a far more playful tone in keeping with his subject here, dancing in nimble, highly stimulating fashion between Maddin’s discussion of his influences and inspirations, and evidence of them in his output." (The Hollywood Reporter)

Biography: Yves Montmayeur, born 1963 in France, is also working as a film critic for French cinema magazines and as a TV

director for ARTE’s "Tracks" program, directing reportages about cinema, music and the visual arts. Since 1999, he has shot numerous documentaries on cinema – with special emphasis on Asian directors such as Hayao Miyazaki, Miike Takashi, Christopher Doyle and Johnnie To. In 2013, his penultimate documentary, MICHAEL H. PROFESSION: DIRECTOR, a portrait of acclaimed Austrian director Michael Haneke, was released in theaters in many countries after his premiere at Robert De Niro’s Tribeca Film Festival.

Filmography (selection): 2004 ELECTRIC YAKUZA: GO TO HELL!, 2005 GHIBLI ET LE MYSTÈRE MIYAZAKI, 2009 VIVA LA MUERTE!, 2010 JOHNNIE GOT HIS GUN!, 2013 MICHAEL H. PROFESSION: DIRECTOR, 2015 THE 1000 EYES OF DR. MADDIN

Awards: Venezia Classic Award for Best Documentary on Cinema (Venice International Film Festival, Italy 2015)

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