Odilon Redon, or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity
1995 Canadian film
- 1995 (1995)
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Odilon Redon, or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Guy Maddin and released in 1995.[1] The film stars Jim Keller and Caelum Vatnsdal as Keller and Caelum, a father and son who compete for the affections of Berenice (Brandy Bayes), a woman they have rescued from a train crash.
The film was commissioned by the BBC as part of a series in which filmmakers were asked to create short films inspired by other artists. Maddin chose French painter Odilon Redon, focusing in particular on The Eye Like a Strange Balloon, one of the charcoal illustrations Redon did for the first published French translation of the works of Edgar Allan Poe.[2]
The film had its theatrical premiere at the 1995 Toronto International Film Festival,[3] where it received an honorable mention from the Best Canadian Short Film award jury.[4]
References
- ^ David Church, Playing with Memories: Essays on Guy Maddin. University of Manitoba Press, 2009. ISBN 9780887553547. Chapter "Thoroughly Modern Maddin" by David L. Pike, pp. 96-118.
- ^ William Beard, Into the Past: The Cinema of Guy Maddin. University of Toronto Press, 2010. ISBN 9781442610668. pp. 363-365.
- ^ Geoff Pevere, "Canada's radical cinema". The Globe and Mail, September 9, 1995.
- ^ "Audiences back Antonia's Line at Toronto festival". Ottawa Citizen, September 18, 1995.
External links
- Odilon Redon, or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity at IMDb
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