Night Mayor is a 2009 short film by Guy Maddin, about a fictional inventor in Winnipeg who uses the Aurora Borealis to broadcast images of Canada from coast to coast in 1939, until the Canadian government shuts down his illegal project.
| Night Mayor | |
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| Directed by | Guy Maddin |
| Written by | Guy Maddin |
| Produced by | Joe MacDonald Lindsay Hamel |
| Starring | Nihad Ademi Mike Bell Timna Ben Ari Darcy Fehr Audrey Neale Brent Neale Shalini Sharma |
| Cinematography | Benjamin Kasulke |
| Edited by | John Gurdebeke |
| Music by | Jason Staczek |
| Distributed by | National Film Board of Canada |
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Running time | 14 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
The National Film Board of Canada, which was founded in 1939, commissioned Maddin to create a film for its 70th anniversary. In making Night Mayor, Maddin was inspired by his experience researching the NFB's film archives for his 2007 film, My Winnipeg, stating:
“I lost myself for hours, days even, among those dreamy images, constantly finding shots and sequences I’d have been very proud to have created myself. So I had to content myself with including them in this new Film Board project, and hopefully magicking together a framework that was worthy of them.”[1]
The film's main character uses a fictional device called the "Telemelodium" to broadcast his images, which is based on the Telharmonium, an early electronic musical instrument.[2]
Night Mayor was produced by the NFB in Winnipeg and received the Best Experimental Short award at the 2010 South by Southwest festival.[3][4] It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.[2]
References
edit- ^ "About the film". Night Mayor website. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 22 August 2010.
- ^ a b Morse, Erik (9 October 2009). "Guy Maddin and the Origins of Muzak". Interview. Retrieved 22 August 2010.
- ^ Kaplan, Ben (14 April 2010). "NFB website now streaming full-length Guy Maddin film for free". National Post. Retrieved 22 August 2010.
- ^ "Night Mayor". Collection. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 22 August 2010.
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