The Heart of the World

Also in this combined programme

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  The Dead Father

  • Guy Maddin focus

  The short visits that a deceased patriarch pays to his family are especially hard to bear for the eldest son.
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  Hospital Fragment

  • Guy Maddin focus

  An impressionist series of images, inspired by Tales From the Gimli Hospital.
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  The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Towards Infinity

  • Guy Maddin focus

  Two steam-train drivers, father and son, are after a girl; she leaves with a Zeppelin pilot.

• It’s a Wonderful Life

  • Guy Maddin focus

  Music video, made for the American band Sparklehorse.
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  Fancy, Fancy Being Rich

  • Guy Maddin focus

  Silent, surreal film about drunken sailors hunting women, based on a kitsch opera aria.