THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD / BRAND UPON THE BRAIN!
$17.00
Ticket prices include a $2.00 online booking fee.
Aero Theatre sponsored by NEON | Beyond Fest 2024
Q&As with filmmaker Guy Maddin and cinematographer Ben Kasulke. Moderated by Scott Foundas.
Program begins with short “The Heart of the World”
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ABOUT THE FILMS:
“The Heart of the World,” 2000, Dir. Guy Maddin, 6 Mins, Canada
A scientist chooses a wealthy man over her two lovers but must heal the earth’s core to save humanity.
FORMAT: DCP
THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD, 2003, Dir. Guy Maddin, 99 Mins, IFC Films, Canada
Set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression in 1933, eccentric Baroness Lady Port-Huntley (Isabella Rossellini) launches a campaign to find the saddest music in the world, and before long musicians from all over the globe are making their way to her Winnipeg home to try and win a prize of $25,000. When failed Broadway producer Chester Kent (Mark McKinney) and his amnesiac girlfriend Narcissa (Maria de Medeiros) arrive, they find themselves getting embroiled in the bizarre competition.
FORMAT: DCP
BRAND UPON THE BRAIN!, 2006, Dir. Guy Maddin, 99 Mins, Canada, USA
This eerie excursion into the Gothic recesses of Maddin’s mad, imaginary childhood is a silent, black-and-white comic science-fiction nightmare set in a lighthouse on grim Black Notch Island, where fictional protagonist Guy Maddin was raised by an ironfisted, puritanical mother.
FORMAT: DCP
