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Tales From the Gimli Hospital plus Guy Maddin Rare Shorts

Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights (meaning arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating, the movie starts after midnite)!

Director: Guy Maddin Run Time: 100 min. Format: DCP Rating: NR Release Year: 1988

Starring: Kyle McCulloch, Michael Gottli, Angela Heck, Margaret Anne MacLeod, Heather Neale, David Neale

“What an unearthly experience, these new scores! The flow! The darkness! The beauty! 
A dreamy-dream-dream! SUBLIME!” – Guy Maddin

This special program of films was personally selected by Guy Maddin for all-new scores composed and performed by The Flushing Remonstrance, NYC’s premier group devoted to live film accompaniment.

Maddin’s 1988 groundbreaking debut feature, restored in glorious 4K, is a cult classic about blistering lust and seething envy during a 19th-century epidemic ravaging Gimli, a small Icelandic-Canadian fishing village on the shores of Lake Winnipeg. An important landmark in experimental film, inspired by silent and early film techniques, Tales From The Gimli Hospital is a framework for visions, dreams, and hallucinations that shift, swirl, and superimpose upon themselves with the persistent force of repressed memories imperfectly remembered.

Gimli is presented here along with four rare Maddin shorts – Glorious, Lines Of The Hand, Stump The Guesser (all receiving their live score premiere) and Odin’s Shield Maiden – all with live accompaniment.

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