{"id":3278,"date":"2008-07-05T01:54:22","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T00:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/07\/05\/the-heart-of-the-world\/"},"modified":"2019-03-18T00:49:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T00:49:38","slug":"the-heart-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/07\/05\/the-heart-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heart of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In honour of the great news<\/a> that a print of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis<\/em> has been discovered containing scenes long-believed to have been lost, here’s a link to my favourite Guy Maddin film, The Heart of the World<\/em><\/a>. Maddin’s short is six minutes of frenetic genius which references Metropolis<\/em> in passing although it owes far more to Expressionist cinema and the avant garde propaganda works of Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov and others. I like Maddin’s films a lot, especially the luxuriantly camp Twilight of the Ice Nymphs<\/em><\/a>, but sometimes his eccentricities can be overbearing at feature length. Heart of the World<\/em> by contrast is just perfect.<\/p>\n

YouTube has a few other Maddin shorts including his BBC-commissioned The Eye Like a Strange Balloon<\/em><\/a> (1995), based on a picture by Symbolist artist Odilon Redon. Also the long version of Sissy Boy Slap Party<\/em><\/a> from the same year, which comes across as a crazy blend of South Pacific outtakes, Fassinbinder’s Querelle<\/em> and Martin Denny exotica, in a style as frenetic as Heart of the World<\/em>. Hilarious and homoerotic in equal measure.<\/p>\n

\u2022 I cast Ann Savage as my mother<\/a> | Guy Maddin on his new film, My Winnepeg<\/em><\/p>\n

(Update:<\/strong> Links changed to connect to Maddin’s own Vimeo channel.)<\/p>\n

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In honour of the great news that a print of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis has been discovered containing scenes long-believed to have been lost, here’s a link to my favourite Guy Maddin film, The Heart of the World. Maddin’s short is six minutes of frenetic genius which references Metropolis in passing although it owes far more … Continue reading “The Heart of the World”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,2,7,5,45],"tags":[785,125,777,3267,126,123],"class_list":["post-3278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-art","category-film","category-gay","category-symbolists","tag-alla-nazimova","tag-guy-maddin","tag-martin-denny","tag-metropolis-film","tag-odilon-redon","tag-salome"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-QS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}