Canada,
1995, 5 min
Shown in 2006
CREDITS
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Guy Maddin
- source
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Zeitgeist Films, 247 Centre Street 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10013. FAX: 212-274-1644. EMAIL: clemence@zeitgeistfilms.com.
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COMMENTS
Screened in the program The Heart of Guy Maddin. Guy Maddin attended to receive the 2006 Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award.
OTHER
Asked by the BBC to create a short film inspired by a favorite artwork, Maddin chose a charcoal sketch by French Symbolist Odilon Redon. Emulating the smudgy, charcoal look of the original, Maddin feverishly retells the story of Abel Gance’s La Roue in five minutes (the original was eight hours).
—Jason Sanders
FACTOID #27
A surrealist stop-motion animator, the Czech Jan Svankmajer, was the first recipient of the Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award in 1997. The POV Award honors the lifetime achievement of a filmmaker who works outside of feature-length narrative filmmaking.
