Short Films Waiting for Twilight The Devil's Cleavage

Don't miss this night of Guy Maddin's rarely screened short films! Also playing: Waiting for Twilight, a documentary about the filming of Maddin's Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, and George Kuchar's lurid treasure The Devil's Cleavage.

Among Maddin's shorts in this program are his first film, The Dead Father (1985; 23 mins.), about a decaying patriarch who periodically drops by to terrorize his family; The Eye, Like a Strange Balloon, Mounts Towards Infinity (1995; 5 mins.), inspired by French symbolist painter Odilon Redon; Hospital Fragments (1999; 3 mins.), a revisiting of his own Tales from the Gimli Hospital; a reprise screening of The Heart of the World; and the music video clip, It's a Wonderful Life (2001; 3 mins.), produced for the Sundance Channel's Sonic Cinema.

Narrated by Tom Waits, Noam Gonick's documentary Waiting for Twilight takes viewers behind the scenes during Maddin's often agonized creation of Twilight of the Ice Nymphs. (1998; 60 mins.)

Completing the program is The Devil's Cleavage, a deliriously lurid psychodrama from another one of cinema's inimitable characters, George Kuchar. (1973; 122 mins.)

(Program approx. 225 mins.)