Night Mayor (2009) by GUY MADDIN

Night Mayor
Guy Maddin, Canada, 2009, 13 min 53 s

Guy Maddin’s latest film is the story of inventor Nihad Ademi, who harnesses the power of the aurora borealis in 1939 Winnipeg. Ademi uses the power to broadcast images of Canada to its own citizens from coast to coast, but in the process angers the government.

The Pendulum, The Pit And Hope (1983) by JAN ŠVANKMAJER

 

The Pendulum, The Pit And Hope (Kyvadlo, jáma a nadeje)
Jan Švankmajer, Czechoslovakia, 1983, 15 min
Adapted from Edgar Allan Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum

 

The Pit and the Pendulum (Harry Clarke)

Illustration for Edgar Allan Poe’s story The Pit and the Pendulum by Harry Clarke (1889-1931), first printed in 1919.

 

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Autres films de Jan Švankmajer publiés précédemment : The Ossuary (1970) ici et The Fall of the House of Usher (1982) ici.

Altered States (1980) by KEN RUSSELL

Altered States
Ken Russell, USA, 1980, 102 min
Audio excerpts from Voile D’Orphée by Pierre Henry

 

A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress genetically. IMDb

 

Altered States (1980) by Ken Russell

 

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On le met en relation avec le Cerveau Mystique (2006) d’Isabelle Raynauld (on en parlait ici), les Witches’ Cradles (2009) du Center for Tactical Magic (ici), la Hofmann’s Potion (2002) de Connie Littlefield (ici) et la pochette du groupe Godflesh pour l’album Streetcleaner (1989)