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A Conversation with Guy Maddin

Thursday, March 10, 2016 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm EST

Installation artist, filmmaker, and director Guy Maddin
Installation artist, filmmaker, and director Guy Maddin
Installation artist, filmmaker, and director Guy Maddin

Guy Maddin and his partners are communing with the spirits of long-lost movies. In a conversation with William Uricchio, Maddin will discuss why we should bother digging up filmic and narrative memories from oblivion, how we can take advantage of the Internet to involve new publics, and how the act of doing so might help to create a new web-based art form.

Maddin is an installation artist, writer and filmmaker, the director of eleven feature-length movies, including The Forbidden Room (2015) and My Winnipeg (2007).

In the winter of 2015/16 he and Evan Johnson will launch their major internet interactive work, Seances, which will enable anyone online to “hold séances with” movies fashioned out of fragments of long-lost films.

 
 

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Thursday, March 10, 2016
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5:00 pm - 7:00 pm EST
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MIT Building 56, Room 114
Access via 21 Ames Street
Cambridge, MA 02139 United States
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