The Age of Ademi

While searching for intellectual pornography (you know, looking up filmmakers, authors, artists, and the like that make you squirm six inches under your belly button) I stumbled upon this little gem I had no idea about. In continuing the NFB theme (see below), here is, without further ado, Guy Maddin's latest piece, NIGHT MAYOR (say it quick...). In a nutshell, the film is a portrait of Ademi Nihad, a Bosnian immigrant living in Winnipeg with his children. He created an organic television to transcribe the Aurora Borealis into sound and images, but it's not enough. He devises a plan to spread this transmission via telephones across the country with his Telemelodium. Of course, there's a conflict...

Maddin is a director I greatly admire above all others, but it's not just his absurdist, comical, silent and experimental cinema throwback style that gets me hot, but the fact that he continues to make short works when the rest of the world seems to be dealing with the pressure to create feature-lengths. When will people realize they can say a lot more in 10 minutes than dragging our dollars out for three hours in a megaplex swallowing our own demented drool over the latest piece of Hollywood's anal drivel? Check out any short by the Kuchars, Anger, or even Maddin, for that matter, and I'll bet there is enough material in just one of those films for Hollywood to make 3 films out of. Anyway, enough ranting. I just want more short "features" (even 45 - 60mins would be awesome). Enjoy.

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