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#302 - Guy's Winnipeg (Patreon)

Published:
2022-01-23 16:16:46
Edited:
2022-01-23 16:41:23
Imported:
2024-06

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The great Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin was assigned to make a documentary about his hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba. He made MY WINNIPEG (2007), a hilarious, surreal dreamscape that combines autobiography, history, and fiction into a free-flowing meditation on a city and a home. We discuss the film's treatment of truth, memory, and the Canadian identity. PLUS: Coke Zero's brand-spankin' new look and Luke discusses the glamorous life of being a published book author.

Preorder Luke's book The Dead Center- https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/the-dead-center/

"Manitoba History - February 19, 1942: If Day" by Michael Newman - http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/mb_history/13/ifday.shtml

Guy Maddin's The Heart of the World - https://vimeo.com/115997353

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The point about National Art and mythologization is interesting. I hadn't given it much thought before but with that quote Luke read toward the end of the show this really stands out as a running theme in Guy Maddin's films (now that I say it it seems so obvious that it must mean I just haven't given Maddin's films much thought before, even though I've seen several). Maybe I'm misremembering since it's been a while, but aren't the contestants for Saddest Music in the World not individual singers but national cultures? I'm also now thinking of "German Mountain Picture" thing. Now I'm thinking of it, as a Canadian I'm surprised Maddin hasn't done anything (that I'm aware of) with the British films enactment of stiff upper lip in the face of adversity bullshit. Stuff like Scott of the Antarctic (Brits literally dying for no other reason but to show their stiff upper lips, without even the excuse of a world war). Maybe it's too obvious, or maybe it's because When The Wind Blows kind of got the final word on that. I'm also wondering if, as Torontans, you guys have seen/have thoughts about Atom Egoyan's movie Exotica. It might be an interesting counterpoint to Maddin's mythologization of Winnipeg. As I recall Exotica it kind of does the opposite for Toronto, hollowing out any local particularities to clear the way for commerce in illicit goods and tawdry fantasies. The only cultural production that I can think of that's represented in the movie is Elias Koteas sleazy and bizarre narrations about his ex-girlfriend that he gives over the PA system of the titular strip club. That's his job. It also has a sort of dream logic but it's a different kind of dream.

Ekaterina Sedia

Just watched The Heart of the World and it’s what Don’t Look Up should’ve been