Director for the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, Will Straw, and Catherine Russell, professor of film studies at Concordia’s PhD in Cinema and Media Studies and Humanities Programs discuss Guy Maddin’s 2007 film My Winnipeg.
Described as a “docu-fantasia”, a surrealist mockumentary about Winnipeg, Maddin’s home town, the film is regarded as Maddin’s best work. My Winnipeg won the award for Best Canadian Feature Film when it premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). It has been named one of the Top 10 Canadian films of all time, as well as one of 150 essential works in Canadian cinema history.
- “Kitsch Historiography: Barbara Stanwyck in the Jungle.” In Media Res, A Media Commons Project (7 Aug. 2013).
- Isabel Maria, “La cámara como escritura” interviewed for artist’s documentary on Experimental film, October 2009
- “Double Obsession: Sex, Death, and Oshima,” Video Essay for Criterion Collection DVD release of Empire of Passion, April 2009
- “Mini-cinema: A Digital Diary for iPod,” in DVD box set of the Films and Videos of Midi Onodera, 2010.
- “When a Woman Ascends the Stairs: Diary of a Ginza Bar Hostess,” Essay included in Criterion Collection DVD release of When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (dir. Naruse Mikio, 1960), 2007.
- Liner notes for three disks by Naruse Mikio Meshi, Sound of the Mountain, Flowing. Masters of Cinema (U.K., 2006).
