Brand Upon the Brain!

Saturday, October 12 - Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Tuesday, October 15 at 7:30 p.m.: Q&A with director Guy Maddin, moderated by film curator Joseph A. Berger, founder and host of The Deuce Film Series

“In the weird and wonderful supercinematic world of Canadian cult filmmaker Guy Maddin, personal memory collides with movie lore for a radical sensory overload. This eerie excursion into the Gothic recesses of Maddin’s mad, imaginary childhood is a silent, black-and-white comic science-fiction nightmare set in a lighthouse on grim Black Notch Island, where fictional protagonist Guy Maddin was raised by an ironfisted, puritanical mother. Originally mounted as a theatrical event (accompanied by live orchestra, Foley artists, and assorted narrators), Brand upon the Brain! is an irreverent, delirious trip into the mind of one of current cinema’s true eccentrics.” -Criterion Collection

Official Selection: Berlin International Film Festival

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Part of our retrospective Forbidden Rooms: The Films of Guy Maddin

• Country USA
• Year 2006
• Running Time 95 minutes
• Format DCP
• Distributor Comscore
• Director Guy Maddin
• Cast Gretchen Krich, Sullivan Brown, Maya Lawson, Jake Morgan-Scharhon, Todd Moore
• Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil

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